I'm sorry to hear about your injury Mud rocs. I broke my left fibula in 2003. It wasn't bad enough to need surgery: I had six weeks in a cast, the first few weeks not weight-bearing, then gently increasing the load.
When I got out of the cast my leg looked a bit thin and wasted (with long freaky leg hairs like plants that have been kept in the dark!) and I had some fluid retention below the ankle, which spread to the rest of my foot after a long day on my feet. I continued to use the crutches for another week or two, and also had a thing called an air cast brace - a sort of inflatable support that looked like two sanitary towels held together with velcro! I had NHS physiotherapy for a month or two and could run short distances on soft grass within three weeks, perhaps a month, of getting the cast off.
In the longer term, it took several months to recover the full range of movement in the ankle and the foot swelling happened occasionally for over six months. For maybe a year afterwards my ankle would sometimes hurt when I woke up in the morning, I think probably due to lying in one position all night.
I made a point of going out for a mile or so walk every day on the crutches which is hard aerobic work (get some cycling gloves if you don't already have them) so think I ended up fitter from a cardiovascular point of view than I was before. I broke the bone in November then got my best ever half marathon time in May
Six years later I never think about it at all and have no lasting effects: I hope your recovery goes the same way!
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