If you have any updated information on your condition, can you please provide it? including information, recovery time, treatment, anything else about your initial injury.

I have recently fractured my lateral mallelous. It was an avulsion fracture (ligament tore piece of the bone off) so it sounds similar to your original injury. It came from a very bad twist of the ankle (running and jumping, landing poorly)

It's hard to keep off it completely because there is little pain and my lifestyle is filled with moving around a lot. The first x-rays (that I've seen) were one week from injury and the bone was just about where it was supposed to be. the next week, it was a bit displaced (I do not know how far but it looked a little lopsided) however "nothing to worry about" according to the doctor. It's been another two weeks since then will not see another xray until I get the cast off next week, then I have the choice of a walking boot (which I desperately want but healing comes first).

It's been 4 weeks since the injury and I've had little pain, just a little soreness at the site of fracture (and in the ligaments around it) but only occasionally do I feel any soreness there and I have full feeling and control of toes/etc.

I'm very concerned about it healing properly though, my doctor said the bone will probably "scar into place" and not cause any problems; he is more concerned about the ligament (although he did not run any tests or anything to see how the ligaments are doing or if they're injured). But what does the piece of bone scar to if not in the original spot? I feel I'll probably have problems 10 years from now and just trying to learn anything I can about this kind of injury (anyone else can chime in too!)