dapack, thanks for encouragement. Helps me a lot. Only place I get support in online or offline world is here, no lie.
mikeh, thanks buddy for the support too, means a lot.
aild, I'm finishing my Multimedia Design major w/ minor in Health Promotion.
Quick update: When I was doing my workout at Golds I was also taping my workout. I taped a few sets of squats and then box squats [instead of a box I used a flat bench] just to see how my form was. I then taped heavy SLDLs, New PB in there I think but the highlight of the workout was when I was doing heavy seated calf raises. It's still hard for me to think about it, I get physically ill, though I don't yet have the courage to watch the video, I was stuck under the weight without the safety bar and I fractured my ankle. I did call out to some guys to help me get the weight up but it was too late.
After the fiasco, I decided against cardio and just did some ab work. I didn't think it was that big of a deal till when I got home and watched some tv and then later tried to get upstairs to bed: I could not put any pressure on my left foot whatsoever. I ended up getting on my ass and hands over feet crawling up the stairs, and then crawling on the carpet to my room and my bed. That night was horrible pain, constant pain. I couldn't even put the bed covers over my foot, it was that painful. I hobbled into my bathroom and sat on the edge of the tub and put the water on warm-hot and soaked my foot, that did feel good but I couldn't sit there the whole night so I went back to bed and read some books. I returned to the water later, temporary relief. So from 11pm till 630 pm, no sleep, just trying to wait till morning till parents would get up to put my younger disabled brother to his job in town for a few hours.
I told my mom what had happened and she told me to put
ice on it and elevate it till she got back. When she came back we told my father and he had an old set of aluminum crutches from when he broke his foot at work [I was there and helped him to the hospital but that's not a story I want to tell]. I used those for a bit, trying them out, it's honestly a workout to get around in crutches, no doubt.
So we called the local hospital and there were two options: go to emergency room for lots of cash or wait for a Dr.s appointment and have insurance cover it. The pain wasn't insane and the elevation was more painful but helped a lot with less swelling so I waited for the appointment. Luckily at the hospital there was a wheelchair so we used that to shuffle me around. I thought I was done with feeling completely helpless but I guess not. Xrays revealed no broken bones but in the Dr.'s words it was too early to tell since I just injured it last night, not even 24 hours ago.
I got topical cream to apply 4 time a day, a wrap to immobilize the ankle, and 30 pills of generic Valium. The pills helped the most, I took one on the spot and 20 mins later no pain. I took another before I went to bed that night because they made me dizzy and tired, lol great sleep 12 hours! That was Friday. Sunday, today, I've done my creams and wraps and no more pain and I can stand a bit on the leg, but no cardio for a few weeks a least! lol. I'm grateful my recovery is coming so quickly but I'm getting an MRI sometime next week just to see what really happened, if anything. The MRI will look at not just bone like the Xray does but also the muscle and ligaments as well.
Sunday, today, I got to go back to school to get some computer work done for tuesday's class. I have a plan to get a temporary parking permit to park in front of the arts center where I do my computer work [and where my Major classes are, convenient]. If I do that I can make a straight shot from home to the building and then use crutches to get to building elevator and then to class. The only thing I'm really worried about is I have to get up to my 3rd floor residence hall to get my portable hard drive for my class and assignments to work on. There is no elevator in that antiquated building. So I guess jump up with one foot up the bloody stairs while holding on to the railings, I don't know. I tried the crutches things going down stairs, it's a fuc.king nightmare but possible if I just do it slowly. Upstairs forget about it fu.ck you it's not happening. Go try it yourself, no way 3 floors I can do.
So that's the deal, fu.cked up my left ankle pretty good. Still gotta go on with life though, though taking it easy on my leg and not thinking about working out. Lol that's a lie right there. I know I can't dead, squat, cardio, etc but I can still bench, don't need my legs for that. I don't know about workouts, I will probably just wait it out for a week and see how it goes. The main thing is not to rush the recovery process and hurt it all over before it had time to heal.
I think though I do want to post the video eventually. The camera is in my car and lol that's a ways away from where I am so I'll get to that later on. I gotta get some work done at school and then I'm coming home again. I'm gonna try this commute thing with a temp pass and see how it works out because I can't do stairs at all really and going up and down 3 flights 4 times a day isn't what I need right now so I think I will commute for a week and sleep at home, I think that's best for my foot, the less time I can spend off of it, the better. Good thing it was my left foot and not my right, then I couldn't even drive!
lol keep you guys posted, cya later.
