Like, really.

 

They said it's a significant sprain. It's like, it could be much much worse, but it could also be much much better.

 

It's the very start of our summer here in England, and I had plans. I coach a football team and I play basketball a lot. It was all starting today. I had like, 2 months of football every day lined up.

 

So training this morning I jumped for a header and went down on it. Just like that.

 

Now I'm sitting on the sofa for the next 2 days, and then for 2 weeks I'm just trying to walk. And then I gotta wait around till I can run up and down the stairs painfree before I can play again.

 

The doctors said that should take 6 to 8 weeks. That's like, 2 months, that's like, my summer.

 

I've been looking forward to this summer for that reason. I didn't get much of a chance to play football the past 8 months cause of the weather, so I planned the summer out. I had all my footballers knowing we were gonna play 10am Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

 

 

Now, I was in the hospital and I saw a bunch of things. I saw a bunch of people in much more pain than I was. This isn't a plea for sympathy. I'm just frustrated and I know I've pissed off at least 3 of my friends just complaining about this. I know it could have been a lot worse but why did it have to happen any way? The one thing I've been looking forward to might have been taken from me by what? I landed wrong when I jumped? I would have been a bit less bothered by this if it'd been something a bit more dignifying. I got beaten by some soft grass. Some soft grass stopped my summer.

 

I'm not bitter. I just need somewhere to complain for a little bit until I realise that complaining won't make it better. I'm sure there's a whole bunch of you who've had worse, but if I can pardon myself for being a little bit selfish right now.

 

This was important to me and unless I heal quicker than expected, I'm likely to spend a lot more of my summer on this forum and this sofa than I'd like.

 

 

 

 

Hah, it's not like there's any better conversations going on in the Lounge right now :P

 

 

I just read it back, I wrote it before I started watching Rush Hour. What a film. Cheered my emo self up a lil bit. :P

Aw. Hope it heals soon. =)

 

I've done the same--sprained my ankle pretty bad right before softball tryouts after running and twisting my ankle in a pothole. Never saw the doctor about it. :laugh3: It took two months for it to heal completely, and I didn't play softball that season.

 

I remember asked for crutches at the school office and they made me limp to the nurses office (which was about a quarter of a mile away) to get them myself. :laugh3:

 

Anyway, I hope you'll be able to get into sports again soon. :)

ooouch :\

yeah it happens dude.......

ouch. hope it heals alright! ice it and elevate it, take some advil. i've lived off that advice at times.

 

i know what it's like. i'm one of the most injury prone people in the world, no joke. i threw my back out by doing reaaaally simple things, 3 times in about 8 months or something. same injury. first time spiking a volleyball, then pulling out rafters (BAD idea), then just passing a basketball the last time. so after that i decided not to play sports for about 6 months because my chiropractor told me it might never heal if i don't rest properly. it was killer, i was so bored.

 

that really sucks about the injury though. stupid grass. it's always the little things that screw you over.

I sprained my ankle in March, it still hasn't fully recovered yet

Ouch!

I did the same thing. Tore all the ligaments and had to use crutches for 6 weeks and wear a cast just as if it was broken. Painful as hell. I still can't watch the ankle breaking scene in Misery.

Because they are avascular, ligaments take longer to heal. Try taking an aspirin a day, it will thin your blood enough to speed the healing process. Ice it the first few days, then warm moist heat. Hope you feel better soon.

I damaged my right knee several years ago, still hasn't fully repaired itself. Some days it's painful to walk on.

 

Didn't see a doctor though. But get well soon Jack.

I know how you feel. Sprained ankles can be really painful, and if you're a really active person, the sitting around waiting for it to heal is worse than the pain.

 

I sprained my left ankle in the spring, and I was supposed to stay off of it, but that's too difficult. It's still messed up.

 

I hope you heal quickly so you can get back out again. =)

i smashed my knee several years ago,and it still hurts even now..at the time was unable to walk for a month...you will never really know what that is like until it happens to you!

that's really crappy.

2 months? that's quite long.

but things like that always happen to me, too.

why can't we be sick when we have to go to school?

why do those things always happen on holiday?

but hey, you should enjoy your time at home though it gets boring after... 2 days. :(

I broke my leg last Tuesday because i fell with my bike..Damn it hurts, but oh well these things happen :\ Hopefully you get well soon :)

^Sounds like there's demand for a "broken bones" thread!:rolleyes:

Yeah,i believe you also had some broken bones in the last year mark.

that sucks... i broke my ankle in the middle of my high school tennis season... it sucked... nothing you can do now but wait it out

damn.

 

hey, be my guest to complain :P

oooh...

I hope you'll recover quickly from it.

at first, upon reading the title of the thread, I thought this was another one of Alyssa's '' unfortunate fell off my skateboard at a speed of 90mph again threads''

 

Good to hear that she is okay...

 

what's the progress on that healing?

Oh, I can pretty much walk on it.

 

Not enough to be going out and stuff.

 

But enough to like, move.

 

I might be able to jog in a straight line by the weekend.

 

;D

 

That's actually my goal. Ha. I'm actually healing pretty quick. Quicker than I'm supposed to be.

Oh, I can pretty much walk on it.

 

Not enough to be going out and stuff.

 

But enough to like, move.

 

I might be able to jog in a straight line by the weekend.

 

;D

 

That's actually my goal. Ha. I'm actually healing pretty quick. Quicker than I'm supposed to be.

 

As did I.;)

^^That's good to hear..:)