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[andpuff]

My GP called this morning.  Apparently I've knocked off two 3 milimeter pieces of bone -- one from each side of my ankle.  She has no idea how I've managed to do that but one came off with a wrenched tendon and one with a ligament.  Right at the moment, there's nothing stabilizing my ankle so we're heading into the city this afternoon for a lace-up

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[hsifyppah]

Both sides! You are bizarrely talented.

I mean, poor sweet baby!

[andpuff]

My doctor: "So what did you do?"
me: "I feel off the step."
her: "No, really?"
me: "Really. I fell off the step."
her: "More than once?"

I haz mad falling skillz...

[dreamtigress]

I once broke my thumb by stepping on it. Bizarrely talented indeed !

[wiliqueen]

I have absolutely no idea how I made it out of my childhood alive, let alone without breaking any bones. The injuries I have gotten are definitely in the "bizarrely talented" category.

Of three concussions, two involved miscalculated ducking (once under the loft in my dorm room, which had been the same height for months). One involved actually getting kicked in the head... in a choreographed fight. (No, it wasn't supposed to connect.)

Then there was the sprain where the doctor couldn't figure out how I'd managed to involve basically every scrap of soft tissue anywhere in my ankle and not incur a fracture. That one was technically a soccer injury, except for the part where I was walking across the field during practice and stepped in a hole

[warriorofworry]

Ah, I broke my own left ankle (the first time) walking down a hallway. Yep. Walking. In Earth Shoes.

Know the feeling

[darcy807]

I once sprained my ankle while reading a bulletin board. I was just standing there, apparently shifted my weight, and next thing I knew my butt was on the linoleum.

[icedrake]

You should have blamed ninjas!

(I owe the metal plate in my leg to a particularly belligerent curb)