Plate and screws are in, leg bones feel better but the staples burn. I'm back at my mom's house instead of at the hospital so that is better, and knowing the surgury is done so the bones can heal is a relief.
Thanks for your concern.
Let me make a suggestion to you. Drink Milk & lots of it.
The calcium will help heal things up properly & quickly.
When I was 18, I broke my tibia (front shin bone) on a snowmobile. I was sick for a couple of weeks before my 4 week check up with the doc. When he looked at the x-ray, he stated that I wasn't healing that much. I am usually a quick healer, so I figured my slow healing was due to me being sick for a couple of weeks and my body having to fight the cold distracted it from healing my leg. I decided to test my healing ability/speed. So I told my dad to buy at least 1 gallon of milk per day. I drank over a gallon of milk except for one day I only did 3/4 of a gallon.
So the two weeks go by and I've been keeping to the gallon per day routine. I go into the doc's office again, and he x-rays the leg again. He was so amazed that he almost fell off of his chair. He showed me on the bone where you can see the new bone grown around it and it was healing. He said that it was healing so well, that he could take off my full cast and I did not need the walking cast that usually is needed for another six weeks! How about that? I was supposed to be in a cast for 12 weeks and only needed it for 6.
My strategy worked: throw all the calcium at that you can and let your body be the limiting factor to your healing quality and speed.
So, guzzle up some milk and get that thing healing...