Keep Feet Elevated

Like the idiot I am, I was running to catch the last bus of the night last night after Aggie Pub, and did a total faceplant in front of the buses. Uninhibited without any bracing from arms and legs, I flew in the air and landed awkwardly on one ankle, on the opposite knee, and all down the side of my hand. If it weren't for it being winter and wearing a jacket, I would have been bleeding up my forearm to my elbow.

I did a pretty good (newb) job at doing an ankle wrap. I took the gauze and wrap bandaging from the first aid kit in the lab, and sat there tediously trying not to stretch my ankle in awkward positions, while working over my now very inflexible body and wrap my ankle up.

The very concerned Jerlene sent me to the walk-in-clinic today to get it checked out. After a 1.5 hour wait, the doctor came in, rolled my ankle for a whole 2 seconds, told me it was a soft tissue injury, got me some sample advil liquidgels and sent me out the door. Not even 2 minutes in the doctor's office. Awesome.

Bruce is going to bring over a velcro ice pack for me later tonight to use to keep the swelling down. As you can see, it's getting pretty bad...

I personally didn't think it was swelling, because I was having no trouble getting my shoes on, but after getting home today from a day of walking around campus (aside from when waiting for the doctor), I noticed the blue tinge to my skin and the MASSIVE swelling around my ankle bone.

"Keep your feet elevated as much as possible. Ice it constantly. Stay off your feet for at least one week."

Damn. There goes my plans for my exercise regimen..