I broke my leg! Part two

After the surgery was done, the doctors put a permanent splint on my leg with a water cooling system that weighed 30 pounds.

I was sent home and told to come back in a week. I lay on the couch at my grandmother's house for a full week without getting up except for going to the bathroom. I had to use a commode.

After a week I went back to the hospital and they took off the impermanent splint, put on a removable boot and said that I could now walk on crutches. The first time I stood upright, without weight-bearing, the blood rushed down to my leg. It hurt a lot and I was instructed that I had to do this every hour during the day to keep the blood flowing in my leg so that it would heal faster.