A break on a weight baring limb is tough. I broke my right knee 11 years ago. It was what's known as a "Table Break" or a "Platform Break" where the part of the shin bone that widens out to support the thigh breaks away on one side. I also clipped a dime sized piece off my left elbow bone that about a third of my triceps tendons were attached to and either broke a small bone in my right wrist or sprained it severely. (By far the most painful of the three injuries.) A four hour surgery and two days in the hospital I was outfitted with a "Platform Walker," a device that used to be a walker, until they added arm rests to take my full weight. I need that instead of crutches due to the injury to my wrist, since I couldn't take any weight on the wrist, my forearms had to do the work. It was a real pain to maneuver in that thing.

We were living in and upstairs apartment at the time and my daughter and her family had just bought a nice little house, so they traded domiciles. We moved the next month to a ground floor 4-plex. The fall that caused the break happened the last weekend in June and I was finally release to go back to work the second week in January.

I make a terrible invalid.