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    Has this happened to anyone else? Any advice on how to speed up healing process? What did you do in the meantime to support yourself?

    The doctor has told me to be on crutches for 6 weeks then another 6 weeks before I can start dancing again but it's going to be after Christmas by then. Luckily I have savings to support myself but really want to get back to work as soon as possible.

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    Default Re: Broken Foot, Can't Work

    This has happened to a few ppl I've worked with. One girl ended up camming until her's healed, that may be a good option for you as it's even hard to get a normal job when you are not mobile.

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    As frustrating as it is to have to take 3 months off from work, follow your doctor's orders. If your foot is feeling in great shape before the time is up, check with him before hitting the club again. This is your foot and you don't want to fuck it up by going back to work early. You need it to be in good condition while you keep dancing!

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    Yeah, I've tried camming before but gave up quickly. Might have to give it another go - hopefully my account is still active.

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    I fucked up my knee, hairline fracture and a torn MCL in the same night at work back in March.

    I was on adderall so I didn't feel it at the time. I was in a knee brace and was supposed to do physical therapy, but I didn't do physical therapy. I needed the money so I put a really tight knee ace bandage on and was back at work the next night...and many nights after. It hurt, but for a few weeks vicodin and adderall numbed the pain enough so I could bear to walk on it. My club excused me from going on stage for several weeks because of the injury.

    My knee never healed properly. After 30 minutes in the car it's really painful. It hurts to run around with my son and my knee is constantly bothering me. I take about 1800 mg of Ibuprofen a day, if not more and it still doesn't help--they give me 600 mg prescription ibuprofen. I hate it! I didn't want to become a vicodin addict so I stick to the ibuprofen but still.

    Let your foot heal. Camming, phone sex, selling nude pictures, etc, are all great options in the mean time.
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    I broke my leg a while back at the club... I took some time off at cammed and and stuff. Then I worked the door and stuff at the club so I could still have some money coming in and see my regulars. All and all i was off from dancing for about 3 months. It sucked hard core but I made it and sure you will too.

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    i remember seeing someone onstage with a cast on her leg. i didn't understand then and i don't know.

    if you've put in your time at the club, they might give you a door position for the time being. worth asking.

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    ^That is worth asking.

    I know my club wouldn't do it because it looks bad for business to have strippers with broken legs working where customers can see us. We have a sex shop attached to our store and when dancers get pregnant and what not they aren't allowed to waitress or work in the sex shop, we just have to quit working if we're hurt or disabled/pregnant. We've had pregnant staff members in the sex shop, but they were already there.
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    I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let me work the door, they would let me waitress (if I didn't have to use crutches) but I think I have something sorted out. I'll be moving in with a friend of mine in a different town (which we were planning anyway, just got bumped up) where she owns her house and said I can live rent-free till I can dance again.

    In the meantime she's going to ask around her contacts to see if I can get a desk job somewhere and once I'm off the crutches but still in an ankle boot I'm going to teach private pole lessons as there's nothing like that in this town and know there are girls looking to do it

    My foot seems to be healing well by the way. I've barely had to take pain killers and none for the last week and when I take my boot off can wiggle all my toes, flex my foot, and rotate my ankle without any pain.

    Thank you all for your advice!

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    OMG, I worked with a bootie on my foot when i broke it. Not proud of that fact, this post actually helped me remember that. I just wore a sandle and a boot. How funny is that? I made money, still did dances, just didn't go on stage. Luckily the club I was working for at the time let me because I was paying all the bills of the house. Ah memories. But, I would definitly let your foot heel before anything.

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    This happenend to me 6 yrs ago, I had alot of regular customers so after 6 weeks I returned after my cast was removed. I still had a limp and I actually didn't work the floor I just went straight to the VIP room. Looking back I probably shouldn't have returned to work so soon. Guys who didn't know me would laugh and make rude comments like "Why is there a crippled girl working here"? I ignored them or flipped them off. 6 yrs later I still have problems with that foot.
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    I danced on mine anyway. I do like 75% floor work on stage normally... and when I was on my feet/the pole... I just didn't put weight on the foot.
    The rest of the time while I was wandering around trying to get dances I just wore my little 'broken foot' boot and flip flop + leg warmers to cover the obviously fucked foot. lol. Since I wander around in flip flops half the time on the floor anyway, no one really seemed to notice.
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    hmm in this scenario physical therapy is best option because i have personal experience in of broken knee after surgery i spend months in the physical therapy.........

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    Ugh, I'm going through the same thing . I'm looking for a day job so I can work over the next two months... It's probably a strange blessing in disguise because I've been really, ridiculously burnt out at work lately. Definitely in need of a nice long break

    Good luck, I hope you heal fast!









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    yeah, I've thought of phone sex too. I'll look into it more after I move (living in a house with 10 people and thin walls right now) and I have a friend from the UK coming over soon and staying till mid November so I'll have to wait till after he's gone.

    Thanks for the suggestions! I get my foot x-rayed tomorrow so will update how it is. I'm pretty positive that it's healing quickly.

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    oh *hugs* i'm not in the exact boat but i am in the same -still-healing-in-no-state-to-work. it's hard because i feel impatient and anxious and cabin-feverish.

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    ^ I'm the same. I just hate not being able to do things! I'm even having dreams where I'm back at work, lol. I got a nose job earlier this year and totally didn't wait the recommended time to go back bu it's a bit riskier with my foot, and really don't want to fuck it up more as I want to get into competitive pole dancing.

    Went to the doctors and got it x-rayed again, it's healing well. Can take the boot off to sleep (fuckin' YEAH!) and can start weening off the crutches in 3 weeks.

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