Summation of Friday night:
While climbing, I was attempting a maneuver in which all of my weight was on my left foot. Well, I only had that foot and my right hand on a (precarious) hold while I was trying to reach up for the next hold. All of a sudden my left foot slipped outward, and it kind of folded inward as far and as fast as it could. I heard a cracking noise and was like "Oh shit, my ankle just broke". And then came the searing pain. Got down, took off my shoe, wiggled my toes, everything seems to be working. I drove myself home, went to a friends going away party. A few nurses there tell me about people who broke their ankles who never knew it, and everybodies like "GO TO THE HOSPITAL!!!". So, I decide to just drive myself, and am trying to convince everyone that I can do just that when my friends Noah & Nikki walk in, and volunteer to bring me.
So, after a check-in at the E.R. and a few x-rays, they're wheeling me back to see the doctor, and I see they're bringing me to the Trauma & Intensive Care section. I asked the guy if I should be worried, and he just says "Yes". After an examination by the intern, they bring in the orthopedic surgeon, and he starts examining the ankle, and there's a group of them around me. He asks if I've ever sprained it before and I just laugh and tell him "Yeah, like 50 times". They all look at me in perfect synchronization, I get sheepish and say that I'm hard on my body. So they're chit-chatting away, and I have to interrupt to find out what's going on. "Uh, can anyone tell me, is it broken or fractured?" Nope. Just a bad sprain, but I guess there was something from a previous injury that had them puzzled. Now I'm off the foot for 5 days, got a splint, and have to hobble around on crutches.
To make matters worse, when I finally got tired enough to deal with the pain of moving to bed at around 3:00 am, just as I dozed off I kicked out with that leg and hit the end of the futon frame. That brought tears to my eyes.
So there's my shitty Friday night.
While climbing, I was attempting a maneuver in which all of my weight was on my left foot. Well, I only had that foot and my right hand on a (precarious) hold while I was trying to reach up for the next hold. All of a sudden my left foot slipped outward, and it kind of folded inward as far and as fast as it could. I heard a cracking noise and was like "Oh shit, my ankle just broke". And then came the searing pain. Got down, took off my shoe, wiggled my toes, everything seems to be working. I drove myself home, went to a friends going away party. A few nurses there tell me about people who broke their ankles who never knew it, and everybodies like "GO TO THE HOSPITAL!!!". So, I decide to just drive myself, and am trying to convince everyone that I can do just that when my friends Noah & Nikki walk in, and volunteer to bring me.
So, after a check-in at the E.R. and a few x-rays, they're wheeling me back to see the doctor, and I see they're bringing me to the Trauma & Intensive Care section. I asked the guy if I should be worried, and he just says "Yes". After an examination by the intern, they bring in the orthopedic surgeon, and he starts examining the ankle, and there's a group of them around me. He asks if I've ever sprained it before and I just laugh and tell him "Yeah, like 50 times". They all look at me in perfect synchronization, I get sheepish and say that I'm hard on my body. So they're chit-chatting away, and I have to interrupt to find out what's going on. "Uh, can anyone tell me, is it broken or fractured?" Nope. Just a bad sprain, but I guess there was something from a previous injury that had them puzzled. Now I'm off the foot for 5 days, got a splint, and have to hobble around on crutches.
To make matters worse, when I finally got tired enough to deal with the pain of moving to bed at around 3:00 am, just as I dozed off I kicked out with that leg and hit the end of the futon frame. That brought tears to my eyes.
So there's my shitty Friday night.
oh, and common tastes in music is more than enough of a reason to make out with someone