In '96 the DH slipped on ice as he was getting in the pickup. 'Down' ankle went underneath the truck and it took him a bit to get back upright. He went in the shop office and peeled off his tall insulated boot to see the damage, then pulled it back on again and finished his day's work. When I got home from work that evening, he was in the recliner and that ankle was pretty huge. ER visit revealed a fracture just above his ankle. I was really surprised that they put him in a walking cast a few days later (no surgery), then in a boot in a couple weeks. Since it was his left ankle, he could still drive from day one, so there wasn't much change in his activity level. He has no repercussions from that at all.....winter cold air doesn't make it ache, being on it for hours on end doesn't bother him, he's a very lucky old farmer.