Throbbing Pain

I’m not really that big on pictures but there are just some times when you have to give some kind of visual proof to what you’re about to say. This is my left ankle, this is what happens when you’re going down stairs and there’s uneven ground. It’s swollen to a little bit more than double the size and as you can tell, it’s a pretty shade of purple. I’m in an awful lot of pain and I’m surprised by this considering I normally have a high pain tolerance. Baby thinks that it’s gone past a bruise and is like ‘internal bleeding’…riiiight. This isn’t the first time I’ve done some major damage to my ankle though. I’m basically a sprained ankle junkie, freaky huh? I’ve broken both ankles, I’ve fallen down stairs (see a pattern here?) landing feet first and spraining both ankles at once. You can imagine my surprise when I landed on Tuesday and it was only the one ankle that was damaged. I felt it pop when I went down but figured I could walk it off. I can volunteerily crack both ankles by just twisting my foot a little so it didn’t phase me much.

A few hours later I noticed that it was getting hard for me to move around. At this point I’d been on the couch for a little while watching television so since I wasn’t standing up much, it didn’t phase me that my foot was still sore. I figured this was a given considering I’d fallen only a few hours prior. Once my foot touched the floor and flattened out I felt a shooting pain go clean up my leg…the likes of which I’ve never felt before. This scared me but I didn’t think much about it considering I’ve hurt myself before and have come through with flying colors. The next day before I went into the shower I looked at my foot and noticed it was a heavy shade of purple. Since then, I’ve been nursing and medicating the pain and hopefully my foot will go back to normal sometime over the course of the next couple of days.

Valentine’s Day
Baby and I went to Applebee’s last night and enjoyed ourselves at dinner. We watched a movie before we went to bed and I don’t know about him but I woke up feeling very refreshed. He got me a HUGE teddy bear and a box of chocolate. On Wednesday morning before we went to sleep (We don’t usually knock out until about 5:30AM) he put the bear in the bed with the candy and threw a blanket over it for me to find. I was pretty surprised, he was very sweet about it.

Closing time…
In any event, I think I’m going to head off for the night. My back is starting to bother me from sitting here too long. I think I’m going to hobble myself outside and have a cig.