There's no crying in derby

[lonecow]

Went to the doctor - unlikely to be a serious injury (my mum made him write out a script thingy for an x-ray just in case) but need to keep off it and elevate it and ice it, etc. etc. It's swollen up a bit and I'm making old person noises when I hobble, but I guess I'll survive

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[saffronra]

At least you have a cool story for the ankle injury though ("I was coming out of the toilet" is a much less cool story).

I'm sure you're already aware but it really is very important to stay off the ankle as much as possible, keep it elevated and iced until the swelling has gone down. (I found the plastic bags you can fill with water and put in the freezer to make ice cubes wrap around the ankle very well - much better than a bag of frozen peas! and much less hassle to refreeze and reuse).

The first time I did my ankle a serious injury, I was halfway through a course of iceskating and I did just strap the ankle up (once the swelling had gone down a bit) and go back, but my boots were rigid plastic had quite a lot of ankle support so I felt a bit more secure than if they were leather boots.

Hope it gets better soon!

[lonecow]

Thank you, I don't think I ever knew you used to ice skate! The thing with roller derby skates are they're shorter than the "artistic" skates, so there's really no ankle support on them.

Anyway. Now I have to consider whether or not I can brave public transport on crutches tomorrow...

[saffronra]

I did it for about six months about three years ago, so I'm not surprised you don't remember!

I felt too self conscious to use my crutches this summer and luckily had a boss who wouldn't hear of me coming into the office on public transport. At least you should be able to get a seat!!

[fa11ing_away]

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Heh, fangirl :P

[lonecow]

I have super huge fangirl crushes on most of the league. It makes communicating with them normally really really hard. :P