The day after the fracture, I had surgery. The day after that, I was having the pads soaking up the drainage from the incision changed once an hour, was receiving intravenous antibiotics, and was semi-conscious due to the painkillers. Three days after the surgery, I checked out of hospital against medical advice (the surgeon wanted me to stay another day or two). 

If you made it to court to represent a client the day after a compound fracture, that fracture must have been of a very minor bone. Further, your abilities as an advocate were certainly compromised either by pain or by pain killers; given that you could not possibly represent your client properly under those circumstances, pushing on was not only foolish but unethical.