A broken calcaneus bone is common only to construction workers who fall from two or three stories and people in car accidents who slam on the brakes.
“I think once you get cut you’re kind of never the same,” Peake said. “Once they get in there and start hacking around and stuff like that.”........
“They want to do an ankle replacement because the heel joint, which is called your subtalar joint, they fused that about four years ago with my hip,” Peake said. “So basically now my left to right motion is just gone; there’s basically none. My Achillies is three times the size of the other one. And everything’s so scarred down. Now my ankle joint basically works as two.”
When Joni Pitkanen suffered the same injury last week on an icing touch-up against Washington, the Carolina Hurricanes called Peake to get his thoughts and advice.
“They said, ‘How much pain are you in on a daily basis?’ And I said, ‘Well, to be honest, I don’t really want him to hear this. I hurt every single day,’ ” Peake said.