People keep asking me

Is it a stress fracture?

Which is annoying me all out of proportion to the question. I know why people are asking, they’re genuinely concerned, that’s all. But I got the same question when I fractured my pelvis and so now for Broken Bone 2.0, it’s annoying. Plus I'm cranky because I'm in pain.

Also I didn’t know what the difference was between a stress fracture and an acute fracture. I mean the bone is broken either way, so what difference does it make? Still, I was curious so turned to Dr. Google.

From this article I learned the following:

• Stress fractures usually cause a progressive increase in pain that is worse with activity. This lines up with what happened when I fractured my pelvis. It started hurting a few weeks before that last race, and then boom, I could no longer walk. I think it was breaking for a couple of weeks.
• Acute fractures typically have a sudden onset, with swelling and ecchymosis (otherwise known as bruising). And this is what happened to me on Saturday. I had zero pain in my foot and then boom, I had a lot of pain. Once I got home and took off my shoe, my foot started swelling and it’s still swollen. Normally my feet are scrawny bony things but right now you can’t see a dang bone across where my toes come into my foot. It’s Puffyville all the way. 

There’s a potential for something called a Lisfranc injury of the foot. Two months ago, I went to Urgent Care because of pain and swelling on the top of my foot. It hasn’t fully resolved so who knows, maybe that’s going on too.