At my first ortho appointment I was told that I sustained a stable fracture of the fifth metatarsal (not a Jones or avulsion) and to wear the flat-bottomed shoe and use crutches.

Now, I am back TWO weeks later for more x-rays.

I was hoping to receive good news this time like “you can ditch the crutches and wear a walking boot” or “you can start walking on it in a few weeks” … (or it wasn’t broken and you can go back to running…ha ha).

Well, this is what he said:

• The fracture hasn’t moved
• No surgery will be necessary
• It is healing
• Come back in two weeks
• We’ll x-ray it again then

This time I asked more questions and got more information:

• It is a mid-shaft fracture
• It is not from a stress fracture
• It is spiral (and diagonal)
• I can start putting some weight on it with the shoe & crutches
• I will run again
• I am a klutz – that’s why it broke
• He won’t give me a date for ditching the crutches because he’s afraid I’ll hold him to it.
• Maybe in 2 weeks, he’ll tell me when …

today’s shoe color is green

So that’s it…

For now, it’s different running socks and different sneakers on the other foot each day to match my outfits! (I have grey, pink, blue, green, purple, yellow…)

Happy Running!