Apr 12th 2011, 0:37:51
A week ago this past Saturday, I "sprained" my ankle. Was just walking up the steps. Little twist, little wrench,little pain.
So I go back downstairs and watch a baseball game. After the game was over, I got up to go get a beer from the fridge. That ankle had swollen some and was a little hard to walk on.
I wake up Sunday morning and can't put any weight on it. At all. Well, I've sprained my right ankle prolly 12 times in my life. And not every time, was I able to walk it off. So I figured I'd put an Ace bandage on it for a couple days and it would be all good and fluff.
Couple days go by and it hurts so bad I can't sleep and aspirin ain't doin fluff. Wife says I should prolly go to the Doc and I agreed. We got no crutches. She rounds up a pair the next day and brings them home.
I've never had to use crutches in my whole life. So, I fall off the sons of fluffes trying to get into a chair. Saturday, my wife says she'll take me to the doctor. I fall off them again on the way to the car. 911 gets called and I go to the ER in an ambulance.
Ankle's not sprained. It's broke. Until today, I couldn't stay up off the couch for more than about an hour. Did I mention that my only bathroom is UPSTAIRS?
Now, that might not particularly be a problem except for the fact that I can't get up off the floor on one leg. Bad knee on my good leg. I'll let YOU do the math on how I'm taking care of my "business".
One way is that I haven't ate fluff in 10 days. You see, part of this disaster is the fact that I'm a fat bag of fluff. 328 pounds. With bad knees and not enough upper body strength to suddenly have to be able to lift all that weight with just my arms.
Don't get fat, guys. It's never a big deal until one day, you wake up and you're 50 years old and can't get up off the floor.
I didnt realize how out of shape I am.So I'm dropping weight and when this ankle heals up (6-8 weeks), I'm gonna get back into some kind of reasonable shape.
Being helpless is humiliating especially when you allowed yourself to get that way.