Ouch! I hope your ankle gets better soon! Yay for first day of class! Did I miss what you’re going back for? You’re not going to be a PA anymore, right? I almost wish I was going to school again, just so I have something to do.
Veteran ankle sprainer here. My belief is “motion is lotion”. That’s to say, if you can walk on it, do so. Firstly it encourages a good blood flow in the area and second, it stops it getting weak. This goes against the conventional RICE wisdom but honestly, unless you’ve got a level 3 sprain (completely torn ligaments) then put weight on the damn thing.
A year ago I really fucked my right ankle. This is an ankle that has been sprained a few times previously (note that once you’ve screwed with the ligaments, it’s likely to recur). I was doing hill sprints on a trail. I’d sprinted up and was jogging slowly back to the bottom when I put my foot on a tree root and turn the thing right over. Blinding pain. Now this was a bitch because I was flying to Korea four days later for my Korea/Japan rollercoaster trip - lots of walking around parks and some sightseeing. Obviously I had to get it servicable and quickly. First thing I did was try and stand. Then I walked slowly back to the office (this was when I was doing lunchtime sprint sessions), took ibuprofen and got some ice on it. Colleague drove me home after work.
Next day I put an ankle brace thingy on it (had one from the previous sprain) and walked the usual 2 miles to work. Walked at lunchtime, walked home. While I was at my desk I started doing ankle exercises (such as, imagine writing the alphabet with your foot). I repeated this for the next three days.
It wasn’t completely better by the Saturday but it was rehabbed enough that I could stand and walk on it without much problem. Took me a couple of months to run, but then again it was winter by that point.
Of course I sprained the left one a couple of months ago. Walked the pain out and then carried on running (another 7 miles). It was swollen by the time I got back but I iced it and after that did my ankle exercises and it healed quickly. I’ve run two 10Ks since then and several 9.5 mile runs off my own back. Obviously it wasn’t as bad a sprain as the other, but fact is, I didn’t baby it and it got better faster than it might have if I’d boo-hooed and sat about all day with ice packs on it.
Ankles. They’re fuckers. Don’t take any shit from them.
Cal, you need your regular ankles replaced with titanium bionic ankles! 
Yeah, and all the other joints. Now if they’ll hurry up and invent them…
get better soon Mrs. Bear. Pegg sounds like a sweetheart
today, i had to drive 67 miles one way to pick up a drug for a transfer for our pharmacy. on the way back, an old lady ran a red light, and i t-boned her.
last i heard, she had a bump on her head and was still in the hospital. tried to get the ems guys to give me something for my ankle, and they politely declined. i was even wearing black yoga pants. clearly, they are gay.
im ok as far as i know.
(this post, originally made at 955pm on 9/25/10, has been edited, and the general population is missing out on lulz. also, im remarkably pissed off.)
back to the ankle-
greenie- job i want says bachelors degree, what im closest to says english, so, it’ll be a good ole fashioned english degree. ninja style-- shaken, not stirred. (no, michael j fox isnt my bartender.)
cal- i admire your tenacity and agree with the use it or lose it mentality. i ice and elevate when it suits me, wrap it when it suits me, and im otherwise sitting, walking, standing, and squatting without any discomfort. going down stairs is still a lil uncomfortable, but the longer i go without moving it, the stiffer it gets. i dont like stiff, unless its booze or men.
n- i will, and he certainly is!
training- an evening alone (pegg is with children, my turn to work a weekend again) with beer, nip/tuck, and a buttered cinnamon raisin bagel toasted under the broiler so its hot and buttery and crunchy and wonderful all at the same time.
thank god for the lifting and the other 20 years of athleticism… theres a fat woman in my ass trying to get out, im sure…
maybe they thought you were an undercover ninja-cop?
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
today, i had to drive 67 miles one way to pick up a drug for a transfer for our pharmacy. on the way back, an old lady ran a red light, and i t-boned her.
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i laffed at how casually you say that. gangsta.
happy ankle healing.
double yays for a man who cleans the kitchen. and brings beer. and gyros.
Truly, the week you’ve had would’ve killed a lesser person. You, however, are a ninja bad-ass and will not be taken-down by trivialities.
The black yoga pants remark gave me a much-need smile.
Clearly, it was “Fuck With Bear” week for you! It was “National Call Off Week” for IH. Someone called off every day this past week, one day they had 4 ppl, 3 of whom were managers on different shifts, call off.
I agree the EMS guys were gay because you in yoga pants is an awesome sight. Hope the rest of today goes well for you.
i used to get notified when my posts got edited.
just so we’re clear, mods, we can make fun of the leader of the free world, fat people, dogs, skinny people, people with handicaps, lolipops, sex, farts, athletes, and snuggies, but i cant make fun of (insert deleted name here)?
I was told that using his real name would be slander. ok, i didnt do that.
are there rules that i may know about, and work within?
or are you guys just gonna make shit up as you go and i’ll figure it later.
Hey Lady,
Glad you are ok!
n- undercover ninja cop- sounds like an awesome job! much like the one im gunning for!
deja- i can say it casually because it wasnt worse. i read “blink” a couple years ago, and when i realized how much my mind went through in such a short period of time, i sat back and relished how fucking awesome it was! *my mind, not the crash.
kimba- it’ll take a bus with pointy firey things on the front of it and priests with holy water to bring me down. even then, not for long. no but seriously have you SEEN my yoga pants?!
greenie- oh work for him mustve been awful! going in with such simple hope… that people will show up for work… its the small things, really! i keep lowering my standards for the pharmacy and im pretty sure i reached an appropriate low. last week at work wasnt the worst week ever. (think office space.)
mim- i’m still in one piece with all my digits. itd take me awhile, but i could learn to type without a finger or two, i guess…
Christ, you don’t do things by halves, do you? Glad you’re OK - how’s your car?
I think we need a photo of the yoga pants. Given the chance I’d live in mine, but once you get accustomed to loose legs and drawstring waists, it’s hard to go back to tailored clothes. (A bit like going from Crocs to Manolos, I guess).
I have a fat person living in my arse as well. Bitch gets harder to evict the older you get. I think she’s started inviting her friends round as well.
FWIW, it’s only slander if you say it out loud and it’s not true. It’s libel if you write it out and it’s not true. It’s nothing - not actionable - if it is true. Of course, you can be sued at any time by anyone for anything - yay psycho litigants. But, just because you can be sued doesn’t mean you’ll lose.
Libel:
____ is a thief who stole my couch. (when he isn’t and didn’t)
Not Libel:
____ was convicted for stealing my couch.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
FWIW, it’s only slander if you say it out loud and it’s not true. It’s libel if you write it out and it’s not true. It’s nothing - not actionable - if it is true. Of course, you can be sued at any time by anyone for anything - yay psycho litigants. But, just because you can be sued doesn’t mean you’ll lose.
Libel:
____ is a thief who stole my couch. (when he isn’t and didn’t)
Not Libel:
____ was convicted for stealing my couch.[/quote]
I’m gonna need you in some heels, and some glasses to explain that to me again. preferably in a classroom with a dusty chalkboard that will show every time i throw you up against it.
hafta say i appreciate all the well wishes for my ankle. time and use will depend on me, but always appreciate opinions/suggestions.
still in a considerably great mood. as greedy as i am, i think cuttin down on my work hours will be of great help to the sanity i have left. i feel awesome knowing i dont hafta go in today.
training will happen, but might be limited. i’ll do my best, as always, to make it sound more interesting than it actually is.
If less work hours means more CBear for us, I say HELLS YEAH!
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
If less work hours means more CBear for us, I say HELLS YEAH![/quote]
there is much truth in this.
And if you’re workouts are boring you can always entertain us with a vid of your ass in yoga pants 