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Nov. 21st, 2003 11:39 amSo we played netball last night, and just after the start of the second half I leap in the air, come down awkwardly on the side of my opponent's foot, roll my ankle in a really major way and spend about 2 minutes curled up on the court swearing monotonously.
Until the pain subisded enough for me to stand up and hop to the side of the court, where I sat icing it for the next 20 odd minutes.
Ouch. A bad night ensued (knew I shouldn't have taken off my shoe, can't get it back on!) and a trip to casualty this morning when the swelling hadn't gone down and I couldn't put any weight on it. And jolting hurts.
Fortunately it's not broken, just really quite badly sprained - to the point that I'm on crutches for the next week or so. Which will make work (2nd and 3rd floors, no lift) interesting - I'm not there today because I can't walk and I can't drive my manual car. It'll be interesting to see how it goes next week.
And it's a very pretty shade of black, going more so at the moment. I'll probably take photos.
So a lot of firsts - never been quite this badly injured before, never been on crutches before, never been in a wheelchair (in the hospital) before. Wheelchairs are quite scary, particularly when Dean's pushing.
The most interesting part of the whole experience was Kirsten driving me home. It was fine after she finally found the clutch point and stopped laying rubber at every intersection.
Oh, and we lost 12-8. But two of those were penalties and we only had 6 for the second half... :-)
Until the pain subisded enough for me to stand up and hop to the side of the court, where I sat icing it for the next 20 odd minutes.
Ouch. A bad night ensued (knew I shouldn't have taken off my shoe, can't get it back on!) and a trip to casualty this morning when the swelling hadn't gone down and I couldn't put any weight on it. And jolting hurts.
Fortunately it's not broken, just really quite badly sprained - to the point that I'm on crutches for the next week or so. Which will make work (2nd and 3rd floors, no lift) interesting - I'm not there today because I can't walk and I can't drive my manual car. It'll be interesting to see how it goes next week.
And it's a very pretty shade of black, going more so at the moment. I'll probably take photos.
So a lot of firsts - never been quite this badly injured before, never been on crutches before, never been in a wheelchair (in the hospital) before. Wheelchairs are quite scary, particularly when Dean's pushing.
The most interesting part of the whole experience was Kirsten driving me home. It was fine after she finally found the clutch point and stopped laying rubber at every intersection.
Oh, and we lost 12-8. But two of those were penalties and we only had 6 for the second half... :-)
