Saturday, April 19, 2008

Broken ankles -- so hot right now!

Never a dull moment. I injured my ankle running last week; I thought it would get better, but it continued to swell and bruise until I finally gave in and spent a magical Friday evening in the urgent care ward at the hospital. My self-diagnosis going in was, "Uh, this might be a stress fracture, but I'm not sure"; after 2 hours in the hospital, I finally received the official diagnosis of, "Uh, this might be a stress fracture, but I'm not sure." In any case, I got to have an x-ray and see a picture of my own fibula, which was kind of exciting for me. (Isn't it kind of weird that there are bones inside of you?) Anyway, there's no obvious break in my ankle, but stress fractures can't really be seen without an (expensive) MRI, so we'll probably never know. For the next few weeks I have to wear this boot-like ankle brace, which will hopefully mend my ankle well enough that I'll be able to avoid the dreaded full-leg cast. Unfortunately, the brace makes me limp even more noticeably than before. I was even mocked by a group of junior high kids as I walked home from the hospital, which was so ludicrous that I actually laughed out loud when it happened. Why don't you just tie tin cans to my ankles and throw rocks at me already?

4 comments:

Sheriff Lobo said...

this is no doubt caused by constantly running after buses.

Anonymous said...

Sorry about your ankle!! If it makes you feel better, every once in a while I stalk you on your blog and you make me giggle. I miss you, and hopefully I can make it out to the west coast sometime. I just have 534527856235892652 things to pay for right now. Youknowhowitis.

Piglet said...

tin cans! ha ha!! then they will play "kick the can."

Piglet said...

i didn't know you were running these days. awesome.