I first hurt my foot on Nov 10th while I was visiting out of town, I had stepped off a ladder and instead of stepping on the sole of my foot I stepped onto the outside of my left foot. After a few hours went by I decided to go to the emergery room, I expained what happened and they only took a x-ray of my foot, not my ankle. They told me it was just a bad spain. They told me that I would need a cast in 5 - 6 days after the swelling went down. I went back to the emergency on Nov 12th, my ankle just didn't feel that good. The doctor looked at my x-rays and told me to just put an ice pack on every so often and elevate my foot, it was just a bad sprain. On Nov 15th, I went to a walk in client that I was told did casting. They looked at my x-rays and told me that I didn't need a cast, it was just a hairline crack in my little toes foot bone, they didn't even ask to look at my foot, at this time my whole foot and half way up my calf was black and blue. They told me all I needed was an aircast for about 5 to 6 weeks. On Dec 16th (5 weeks later) I finally went to the walk in clinic I usually go to here in my city. I insisted they take a x-ray of my ankle as well as my foot since I still have a bit of pain and have a hard time getting around my apartment without the aircast on. The x-ray showed that the outside bone of my ankle is broke off and the hairline crack in my foot bone has spread more (I'm thinking it was the swelling that pushed my foot bone together and once it went down it spread apart).
I have a orthopaedic doctors appointment Tuesday morning (Dec 23rd), I told them the whole story and they squeezed me in or else I would have had to wait til Jan 8th. So, I guess I will find out what is going to happen then. I'm thinking surgery (pins/plate) and cast. I guess I should have gone for more x-rays to my clinic once the swelling was down. I just didn't think it was that bad, it hasn't been that painful.
It will have been 6 weeks since I fractured my foot and ankle before I get it looked at by an orthopaedic doctor and who know how long before I get surgery. Can you please tell me what procedures and healing time I can expect now that surgery and casting wasn't done right away.
Thank you for your help....

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