Sunday, July 17, 2011

"Just rest it"

So I am now 4 weeks into my ankle injury. For those of you that missed what happened, basically I was going down the mountain (Blue Ridge Mtns. in Charlottesville), stepped over a fence quickly, backwards, and snapped my foot back in toward my foot. The injury has progressively gotten more painful. I went to urgent care a week into the injury "looks like a torn tendon, just rest it". The pain got really bad, my friend a doctor said I need to see a specialist. I made an appt with an orthopedic. The night before the appt I was in so much pain, I went to the emergency room. "Looks like torn ligaments and/or tendons, just rest it and see a specialist".
Next day I went to the orthopedic, "yup, just rest it, if it's still not better in 3 weeks, come back cause then something is definitely wrong" Thanks guys! Basically ankle injuries need to heal on their own.
Well then, to make things even more awesome, I was balancing on my good foot, grabbing my crutches on my deck, and the left crutch fell from under me and I slammed, full body down on the floor, crutches beneath me. Fell on the bad ankle and totally killed my hip. The crutch was under me when I fell right on my lower back/side.
So I have been couch/bed hopping for a couple of days now, and seeing no progress with ankle. I feel so helpless. Plus I can't lean on my whole left side.
My feet today, guess which one is injured. Remember "just rest".
I just hit a point where I need to vent, I apologize to anyone that didn't want to read my rant. You just get lonely after awhile. Feel free to come and hang out, I don't get out much!

1 comment:

princessbetsy26 said...

Awww, Kellie! I'm sorry you took a fall on your deck! I know that must have been extra frustrating when you were already so immobile! I hope things start turning around for you now! I don't have much going on next week, so let me know when you'd like some company!

PS-That picture really makes it look painful!