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was walking across campus grounds today. ordinary brick sidewalk. when suddenly, i take a step and my foot rolls over. i mean, seriously, it just rolls over on its side.
this has been happening to me with some frequency lately, because i have weak ankles and i tend to wear down my shoes on the outsides. but it hasn't been happening lately with such violence. this was, like, ow.
and, sure enough, when a couple of hours later it was impressively swollen and quite a bit more painful, i took myself to student health. my thinking was, for a mild sprain, i know what to do -- the ice, the wrapping, the elevating. but if it's a nasty enough sprain and i shouldn't be walking on it -- well, i don't know how nasty it has to be before that's how nasty it is.
the doctor? opens with "i'm fairly sure it's not a fracture."
well, thanks. the word "fracture" hadn't even occurred to me, actually. if anyone was going to use the word "fracture", i'd have sort of preferred her to use it along with "confident" instead of "fairly sure".
le sigh.
but, whatever. have wrap. have ice pack. have crutches. (crutches suck. i hate them.) have temporary handicapped-parking permit (university only; but that's okay, don't need the DMV one, really).
have leftover T-3 from the Martian Death Flu. yay, drugs.
have pain.
this has been happening to me with some frequency lately, because i have weak ankles and i tend to wear down my shoes on the outsides. but it hasn't been happening lately with such violence. this was, like, ow.
and, sure enough, when a couple of hours later it was impressively swollen and quite a bit more painful, i took myself to student health. my thinking was, for a mild sprain, i know what to do -- the ice, the wrapping, the elevating. but if it's a nasty enough sprain and i shouldn't be walking on it -- well, i don't know how nasty it has to be before that's how nasty it is.
the doctor? opens with "i'm fairly sure it's not a fracture."
well, thanks. the word "fracture" hadn't even occurred to me, actually. if anyone was going to use the word "fracture", i'd have sort of preferred her to use it along with "confident" instead of "fairly sure".
le sigh.
but, whatever. have wrap. have ice pack. have crutches. (crutches suck. i hate them.) have temporary handicapped-parking permit (university only; but that's okay, don't need the DMV one, really).
have leftover T-3 from the Martian Death Flu. yay, drugs.
have pain.
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I know how you feel. I had that happen to me as I was going down into the subway. I was sort of skipping, you know how you go down stairs quickly, and at the bottom step my right foot rolled and I swear it was at a right angle. Good thing it didn't happen at the top of the stairs. I still hold on to the railing going down stairs now, I'm paranoid.
I had no ice at home and had to put frozen peas on it. Unfortunately the bag of peas was open and I kept finding little green things on the floor, which the cats loved.
Hope your ankle gets better soon! Ankle braces, with solid supports, not just elastic, are great.