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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Props_angel on 2025-11-21 02:58:50+00:00.
Happened on Sunday. I was going for a nice fall (no pun intended) walk and spotted some gloriously vibrant mushrooms popping up through golden orange leaves on the ground. I happily wandered off the path and into the leaves to start taking photos. One large orange mushroom the size of a salad plate, another brilliant red mushroom with cream spots straight out of a fairytale, and then, I saw it.
It was the most glorious mushroom I had ever seen with a deep wine colored cap that brightened into red at the tip with cream veiled lumps scattered across its surface. I walked over to take a few pictures of it but before I could take a single one, I felt my foot begin to slide down the slope as if the leaves beneath it had turned into skis. Panicked because I'd just had a spinal fusion last winter, I ground down with my foot in an effort to break the fall.
Almost immediately a flood of pain erupted with a gunshot crack in my ankle as I eased my upper body into a slide. When I stopped at the bottom of the small slope, my neck was fine but I couldn't lift my ankle off the ground. I ended up dragging myself about 20 feet up the slope where a nice elderly couple found me and I promptly passed out.
Just had the CT scan of my ankle done today. Trimalleolar fracture. Oblique fractures of the tibia and fibula and a vertical intra-articular fracture of the distal tibia which is more consistent with a high energy impact like a motor vehicle accident or fall from a height. I'll be in surgery on Wednesday getting surgical steel implanted into my ankle all because of a stupid mushroom (it was glorious though).
TLDR: I'm getting steel implanted into my bones to put my tibia and fibula back together again because I tried to take a photo of a beautiful mushroom.