The ankle of agony
August 31, 2007I don’t know what I did to my left ankle, but sometime Monday I must have twisted or otherwise injured it. Because since Tuesday morning it’s been in pain.
First noticed it Tuesday when I tried to get out of bed. I sleep on the left side of my bed so my left foot is the first foot to hit the ground. The pain that shot thru my ankle was incredible, if it hadn’t been for the bed I would have fallen down onto the floor. I probably also let out a scream or yell, though I can’t honestly remember.
You know that pointy bone that you can see and fell from both sides of the ankle? On mine you couldn’t see the pointy bone anymore because everything around it had swollen up like a puffer fish.
I’ve been putting the Icy Hot cream, and wearing one of those stretchy ankle support braces. It was really painful Tuesday and Wednesday, started getting better yesterday, but this morning seems to have made no improvement over yesterday.
I’m a little worried that it has been so painful so long. I’ve twisted or strained my ankle before, and it’s never taken this long to heal up. Of course with work I haven’t really been able to just rest the ankle. Even though it’s a desk job you still have to walk to the parking garage, walk to meetings, walk to lunch, etc.
I’m going to try and just give it total rest on Saturday. Hopefully that’s all it really needs.