Misfortunes

[tarigwaemir]

Lowell House, on the Feast of Sts. Tiburtius, Valerian and Maximus

;_; I fell down the stairs and twisted my right ankle yesterday. Of all the worst luck! I thought it would be fine but I woke up this morning to excruciating soreness and limped my way to UHS, where they wrapped it up, took an X-ray (just to check there were no fractures), and gave me crutches. By the way, I am incompetent with crutches, which are a lot more tiring to use than I ever would have thought. My ankle is fine when motionless but protests at having any weight put on it, and there's this huge half-dollar-sized swollen lump on one side of my foot. When not using crutches, I limp about at an excruciatingly slow pace because my foot hates moving. The doctor advised me to take Aleve or Motrin, but is that necessary? I mean, it's not a debilitating chronic sort of pain...and painkillers make my head feel fuzzy.

I don't know how bad the sprain is because I've never sprained my ankle before (or, for that matter, had any sort of serious injury other than bruises and blisters) but I've been fervently praying that it will get better before the Shoryuhai. Literally. I'm so annoyed with myself. The first time I seriously injure myself, and it just has to be a week before a tournament! Even if it does get better in time for the Shoryuhai, I get the sinking feeling that I'll end up watching during the two last practices this weekend, which is loss of valuable kendo time. Argh, I was actually looking forward to practicing shiai this weekend. ;_;

Also, much, much retrospective sympathy for Daera, who sprained her ankle during the Gasshuku and has only really recently recovered. Now I know what she went through.

The self-pitying side of me is about to sink into melodramatic expressions of "Oh, why me?!" (not that it hasn't already), so please tell me something funny and sarcastic to restore my sense of perspective.

Yours &c.

Comments

[aetherangelette.livejournal.com]

Ironic... Sarcastic and funny?

You ran a mile O_O;; More than a mile.... mooof. Where did that Tari go... :looksaround:

Tsubasa is great! <3 <3 <3 Anyway, I'm not a sarcastic and funny person >_> Okay, I'm not a funny person. Actually, I don't think I'm sarcastic at all either... and I think I pretty much lost that vague part of myself O_o; Mmmm. Sarcasm~

[troisroyaumes]

I also ran more than a mile yesterday several hours before I sprained my ankle. OH THE IRONY. ;_; ::sniffles:: Thanks for the attempt at sarcasm though.

[delentyevox.livejournal.com]

get well soon! the crutches get better after a little while, so try to resist the temptation to just limp around on your hurt foot because you have to move so slowly with crutches or because your underarms hurt after awhile. good luck!

[troisroyaumes]

Really? I have been limping around instead, but I'll try to use the crutches if that's better. Although I haven't moved very much today at all. >_>;;

sorry

[cletus12.livejournal.com]

that sucks, are you going to be able to compete next week?

maybe next year we will be organized/rich enough to send a group to harvard

Re: sorry

[troisroyaumes]

I have no idea. I'm going to wait it out this weekend and hopefully I'll be able to compete. ;_; But thanks for the well-wishes.

A lot of schools apply for funding to make it to the tournament so you can always try that. (We have teams from UCLA and UCSD coming after all.) Anyway, it's a shame you're not coming; the head shimpan is an 8th dan, and we have about 30 teams competing.

Good luck at Cleveland this weekend! ^_^

[clocklike.livejournal.com]

Ouchie! I've never had any big injuries either, but that sounds painful. My friend used to have crutches and she loathed them so much since her arms became sore while using them.

I hope you feel better before the tournament begins! People have to see Tari do well like wh0a. Take plenty of rest if you can and look after yourself! *glomps* <3

(Er, I'm not good at sarcasm when it is asked for >_>;)

[troisroyaumes]

Thanks, I hope so too. ::sighs:: And yes, crutches are annoying. I'm only on them for a few days though, so hopefully it'll be over soon? ::prays::

[team7.livejournal.com]

Take care :(

[troisroyaumes]

Thanks, Tin. ;_;

[ayatsujik.livejournal.com]

HEAL SOON. :0 (see, even if I'd been able to come for pre-frosh weekend you couldn't give me the grand tour ehehe.) *offers sencha and sympathy*

[troisroyaumes]

Oh, hopefully I'd be off of crutches by then. (At least I hope so? I'd go mad otherwise...) But yes, limited mobility, alas. ;_; Thanks for the well-wishing!

[tokyofish.livejournal.com]

Can't think of anything funny or sarcastic right now, so, um . . .

Feel better. ;___; It's a sucky thing to happen but take care of yourself, stay off it as much as possible, and I hope you get to compete!

[troisroyaumes]

Thanks...I plan to be as motionless as possible all weekend. And hey, it's feeling a lot better today. ::hopes::

[lush-rimbaud.livejournal.com]

Argh, I just wrote a long comment and LJ ate it.

Anyway, what I said was basically that I just did the same thing -- I sprained my ankle somewhat badly (no fractures, but pain and swelling and not being able to walk) Saturday a week ago. We were doing a Sandhurst course run-through and I got almost all the way through before I twisted my ankle on a rock. So I sympathize. >.<

Also, do you have access to a physical therapy clinic? I went to physical therapy on Wednesday and it really helped. Part of the problem for me was that my ankle had stiffened up because I wasn't moving it, and that made it even harder to walk. So I went to the clinic and they moved it around and stretched it and now I can walk, which is eeee. And I have kind of the same thing -- I have the Sandhurst competition at the end of April, and now I don't know if I'll be able to do it. I'm kind of scared to, because if I reinjure it I might not be able to go to Airborne school.

Anyway, I'm really sorry you're hurt!

[troisroyaumes]

Aw thanks. I haven't been to physical therapy yet although I plan on meeting my PCP on Monday to see if I should go. (I need a referral from her, see.) But I have been reading up on sprained ankles and keeping it stretched and moving, and it's gotten a lot better. I'm still not sure if I can compete though. I really, really, really don't want to miss this tournament...;_;

I hope your sprained ankle keeps getting better though! And that you'll be able to make it to the competition!