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[SheilaT]

When I broke my ankle some years back they waited a week for the swelling to go down to cast. That was a non-displaced spiral fracture. My also being seven and a half months pregnant made it all very . . . . interesting.

More recently I tripped and fell in my driveway at home and had a non-displaced hairline fracture of my right arm just below the elbow. They put me in an ace bandage and gave me a sling. When I came back a week later the doctor gave me a choice: I could be put in a cast, which would adversely affect my quality of life, or I could keep the ace bandage and splint and I had to PROMISE I wouldn't use the arm too much. Naturally I agreed to the latter, although I took off the ace bandage next day because it was making me crazy. I was back to work one week after that, completely healed. Oh and I'm 62 and the ER doctor who took the first x-ray told me I have no sign of bone thinning of any kind.