I have wasted the last hour of my life trying to make it bearable to walk on my left foot. No joke.
Dinner is finished in the crock pot & rice cooker.
Windows are open and need to be shut because it is cold out.
The cat wants attention.
I took my contacts out and do not know where my glasses are.
I cannot walk on my left foot.
A few weeks ago I tried (indoor) rock climbing for the first time and discovered, maybe not surprisingly, that my arms are ridiculously weak. There was a weekend visiting CF and walking 50 miles since then, all with no problems. The only thing I had after walking 50 miles was a hardly note-worthy blister on one toe.
Today, I used the second climbing day from the Groupon deal. I actually made it to the top of the wall, then we tried other routes up and some bouldering before leaving. All seemed fine. Arms were expectedly tired; legs felt fine. Then a couple of hours ago I stretched my ankle and it started bothering me. I left it alone, but I think I may have over-stretched a small muscle just behind that ball on the outside of your ankle. AND HOLY HELL it hurts.
I grabbed some ice. No help.
I brought my work in from the porch so I could sit on the couch to try heat. Made it worse.
Put the ice back on and my bag sprung a leak.
I got up and popped two Aleve and a glass of water.
I tried wrapping it for compression, but had to take it right back off because it felt worse.
Laid on the floor to stretch my legs and elevate them.
That is when I had to actually crawl over to the kitchen to get the ice again, a couple of times feeling like I was nauseous or light headed.
I laid on the floor to stretch my legs over my head again.
I put the ice back on.
Crawled back over to the couch and am laying here with the ice waiting for that Aleve to do something.
I am sure you wanted to relive that with me. I cannot focus to do work right now, though, so I had to occupy myself somehow. I am seriously thinking of adding a tag to my blog: Pain. This will be the only post (hopefully).
Sometimes it is a pain in the ass to live alone.
Wish me luck. Hope my dinner tastes good.
5 comments:
Hope it's better soon. Give me a call and I'll run over some more ice... well it would probably melt by the time I got there, but it's the thought that counts, right?
Thanks for the thought. :-) I have managed dinner, and still icing. It *seems* to be getting better...
ergh. Yes, when you are in pain, it is really tough to be single. It sucks to have to do all the shit yourself.
I was actually popping alleve (and cursing it) too, yesterday. ugh.
I hope you are better today!!
Danielle, hope you're feeling better too! I can walk today, but notice where that muscle is. I'm keeping on the aleve for a bit. :-)
Ai ai ai. That's not good. Rock climbing can push your body to crazy extremes. I have been there, done that. I hope you get your mobility back quickly.
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