Update - I have fractured my left tibia. Also, from the x-ray, it turns out that my injury from July was a stress fracture in my left tibia that was healing fairly nicely until I broke completely through it.
The bone is aligned well, and the ER doctor expects that it will heal if I avoid putting weight on it for the next six weeks. I am on crutches with a velcro knee immobilizer until then. At this point, it looks highly unlikely that I will be able to go to Europe, to say nothing of actually competing. Needless to say, I am crushed. Because I was unable to train in all of July, my competitive goals were basically shot as of my injury on 4 July.
I am going to see an orthopedist in a few days, and I will have more data then. As disappointing as it is to miss the 2010 WARDFC is, no longer represent the United States on the international stage, and hobble around on crutches for six weeks, the novelty of breaking a bone (this is my first) is a small comfort. I imagine people will be very nice to me over the next few weeks. I'll try to bear that in mind when I'm sitting in my apartment instead of facing off with the best ARDFers from Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Russia.
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