Wednesday, September 19, 2007
ankle business
Last Friday morning, like every other Monday, Tuesday, and Friday morning's my day begins at 5:15 when I am awakened by my alarm clock for 6am dry-land. I usually shut my alarm off and make it go off again at around 5:30. I roll out of bed and put my shoes on and leave. However on Friday, it all started off when my alarm clock decided not to go off and I was woken up by my friend pounding on the door, waiting for me to go to dry-land with her. As soon as I woke up I could tell that this was going to be a rough and long day. Just as dry-land was just getting intense, I started to get real tense. As we continued, we started doing some lateral movements in the shape of a rectangle. I was doing pretty good, until...I fell. I twisted/rolled my ankle and fell right to the floor. My ankle immediately swelled up to the size of a baseball, but I just kept doing the exercises until the end of dry-land. By the end I was in an immense amount of pain and my ankle was huge and black and blue. When I fell, I heard and felt a pop in my ankle. Being the stubborn person that I am, I didn't go to the trainers or anything and just kept moving on it all weekend. I went home to a girls house on my team for the weekend so I just didn't think of it. It was extremely painful, but I was so into being in a different setting for the weekend. On Monday, the ankle was just as bad, and Monday's are circuit days at dry-land, and on this Monday we had to do a bunch of jumping and especially on one leg, it was horrible. On Tuesday, my mother made me go to the trainers room and get it checked out because it just wasn't getting any better. I went and after spending almost 2 hours in the room, I received stim, and was iced, and a nice massage on my ankle. Since then the swelling went down a little bit, but I still have to go back everyday and get stim and ice and make sure its doing okay. They believe that it is a sprain.
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I sprained both ankles (at different times) last year. Major bummer.
I have built in alarm backups---if I'm not up by 5:30, my two cats racing around and/or meowing for breakfast are bound to do the trick.
i feel bad about your 6 am lifts. we actually have a 7 am lift friday which i am not excited about. you gotta wonder what some people are thinking when they decide to do this.
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