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3. Hope they can find the screws

Reply to lillypaddle (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 01:37 PM

Oct 2017

More than twenty years ago I fell form my bike: too sharp turn, wet pavement..

Broke several bones in my ankle and got three screws, I think.

Four years later my podiatrist suggested to remove the screws. Don't remember the reason.

Well, he could find only one, or two. Rest was covered with tissue, or bone growth.

Manged OK since then, though.

Good luck on the surgery. Make sure that they know where the screws are.

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