In Pursuit of Roller Derby

Yep, it’s official: I’m on injury leave. Not only am I on no-skate, I’m on no-plyo.

Still not sure what’s going on with the ankle; they didn’t find anything in the x-rays. (And they didn’t even let me see them, which was a bummer — I’ve never had anything x-rayed other than my teeth before, and I wanted to see/keep/share them on Facebook. I guess if there’d been something of interest/notice, they would have shown me and explained it.)

I’m bummed, but I’m hoping that it’ll be a brief leave and I’ll be cleared to skate again soon. I’ve got things to work on that don’t involve my ankle (arms and core! and more core! stationary bike is okay!), so I won’t be sitting around feeling sorry for myself.

But still, dang.

I had my first “oh I can totally wear these pants— no, wait, no, they are stuck on my calves because my legs are mighty and awesome and strong but now my pants don’t fit” moment today.

(They’re leggings from Forever 21. I am not super-proud, but they were maybe $4 and it’s really hot for San Francisco and so I wore leggings under a dress today. I just switched to a different pair of Forever 21 leggings, because I bought two and accidentally bought them in two different sizes. The girl asked if I was okay with them being different sizes, did I notice? and I was like “oh, oops, whatever, yeah, it’s fine, they are leggings, they stretch”. Not enough, apparently!)

Also I put on a dress on Sunday for Father’s Day and well, dang, my shoulders look hella broad in this dress, I am getting stronger in my upper body there, so that’s cool but maybe I will wear something else.

My ankle is sprained! After weeks of “man my foot hurts” and a visit to a sports medicine-physical therapist, some time off skates and then some time back on skates, I went to the doctor on Wednesday. She confirmed my ankle is sprained and that I should take at least another couple of weeks off skates.

So that sucks.

I’d already been rehabbing it and going easy on it (I had to drop out of an endurance practice for about half an hour to ice my ankle), but now it’s official that my ankle is in bad shape. Not injury-leave bad shape, but still, I’m frustrated.

I think it’s more of a cumulative sprain than anything else — a wobble on a high heel there, a stumble here, a fall on skates there, walking around in shoes with shitty or no support when I already have bad arches. Just lots of things that added up. And so my doctor said, because it took so much time to build up, it’s going to take time to wind back down.

I got acupuncture on it yesterday and it hurt like hell. Usually it doesn’t hurt like that (for, you know, having needles in your skin) but I had to go into full-on “focus on your inner place” yoga mode to get my mind off the pain. And then she rubbed my ankle with Tiger Balm and it was crazy painful (and I smelled like Tiger Balm in the office for the rest of the day).

But nothing is broken. I can walk unassisted, mostly without pain. It sucks, but I’m lucky that it’s not that bad in the grand scheme of ankle injuries. 

TwoEvils is updated and my name is REGISTERED.

BOOM.