I had a bit of trouble sleeping last night, and finally took some Advil. The ankle felt fine, but when the epidural wore off, my back was felt very sore as if badly bruised. My quadriceps on both legs were really straining and sore. I initially put a rolled-up t-shirt under my back, and that made it feel a little better.

I felt fantastic upon waking and realized that staying sedentary is really going to be the hardest part of healing. My ankle isn’t that painful. I really think the shooting pains of sprains are so much worse than the dull pain of breaks. Plus, I’ve lived with a broken bone for 4 months, other than the sutures there’s not a whole lot of difference.

The boredom is a killer though. I happened on this site for other people with broken legs. www.mybrokenleg.com. Right now, I’m a lurker, but I may have to signup and hit the forums.

After reading a few stories, I really feel for some of these people. One guy had a near-fatal accident and is so depressed, he wishes he’d died in the wreck. Another guy has had multiple surgeries after nearly severing his leg in a backyard constuction accident. I couldn’t even continue reading that one.

I guess this is one of those web 2.0 microniches I keep reading about. Not that I’m not aware of what’s going on in the cyber world, but until I got injured, I could find my micro-niches in the offline world.