Many years ago, I stuck my foot in a hole in the play yard, at the Kid's elementary School. It was severely sprained. Then, one brisk early morning (5am-ish) I was out for a run with the "morning mob" and was greeted by feisty rock lookin’ for trouble-- it won-- I, down with another sprained ankle …and thus goes the last 5 or so years....my ankle hates me. It torments often, about every couple of months I roll it and it swells and prevents me from walking upright. I used to go into the ortho for a check (before hurting myself became a habit)-- thinking "this time it has got to be broken", but alas, nothing but a sprain-- wrap it, elevate, and suck down the Ibuprofin.
Well, this time (while we were in McCall-- at Gold Fork Hot Springs) I did it for real-- but my good HH said I made it look "graceful". I was happy to hear I can still impress him by "falling for him". Yea it was another ROCK! Darn thing. Steven from
BUT today I went in to see the ortho guy. They did x-rays and GUESS WHAT? I broke a "pea" sized knob off of my tibia--awhile back. Ortho guy says it looks like it is an old injury that had been rounded off by injury after injury. He also said that the ligament is so stretch out. I do not have to have surgery at this point-- just a few weeks of Physical Therapy and home therapy and hopefully it will gain some strength back. If I roll it again after that-- SURGERY!
Curses....
2 comments:
The surgury isn't so bad. When I had mine done a few years ago I could not belive how much stronger my ankle was. My " good " ankle needs surgury as well, but it will have to wait.
The sugury is an out patient thing and with a few weeks of P.T. you feel like a million bucks.
I hope you don't have to have the sugury , but if you do, just know it is not that bad, and it helps a lot.
hey thanks for having us over monday night! that was a blast, not to mention yummy! that sucks about your ankle too.. it was pretty swollen stll when we were there. would wearing a brace help?
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