Achilles had his heal

[fbhjr]

When I was in college it seemed like every February I really hurt my foot somehow.
One year a 10 pound part of the dish machine at the campus food center where I work fell off and landed on my big toe.
One year when carrying a full pot of corn chowder at the same food service the cord caught on something and more than a gallon of hot chowder poured into my shoe giving me second degree burns.
One year when rushing to meet a professor I twisted my ankle at the top of the stairs in the social studies building and rolled down the rest of the stair case to limp away at the bottom.
My toe still hurts once in a while.
I avoid chowder. (Of course, I’m allergic to it’s primary component, milk.)
But, it is the ankle that has come to haunt me the most. Ever since then, I have been very prone to twisting my ankle.
The worst was 8 years ago. We were visiting someone who lived up on top of a hill. There was a snow storm and we were getting ready to head home. As we came to the top crest of the hill, we saw another car trying to get up without my luck. Rather than try and pass them on a narrow, slippery road, I got out to help push them the last ways up, then head down myself.
What I didn’t know was that right at the top was a pot hole that had filled up with water and formed a thin crust of snow. When my foot came down it broke through the ice and started to turn sideways. I tried to go with it and not hurt my foot, but my other foot shot out from under me on the slick surface. This put all the weight on the off balance foot, which proceeded to turn in a very nasty way into the pothole doing a good bit of damage to my ankle. Between that and the other foot sliding, I twisted, landed face first and slid down the road towards the car I had been planning to help.
My wife, waiting in the car behind me, says it looked like I “leapt up, spun around in the air, then belly flopped down the hill to the other car.”
The good news is the other car had stopped. I came to rest right in front of their headlights. They turned around, parked at the bottom of the hill and said they would walk up.
Ever since then, it has taken very little to make my ankle turn. Twice this week, and it’s only Wednesday, I turned it on my lunch time walk around the industrial complex where I work.
Monday it was on a pine cone. Today it was on the edge of the sidewalk where the grass was soggy and my foot sank to the right.
Neither are bad twists. I didn’t have any problem walking back to the office on them. But, it is painful and takes a couple of days to recover.
So, I need to remember they are my weak point and watch out for them.

Comments

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

Owww!

I don't seem to remember hearing/knowing about this until now. That sucks.

Every now and then it's my knees, and sometimes my right wrist - which is bad as it's my drawing hand...well, it's my everything hand :P

usually it's my brain that hurts, and it doesn't take much to make it hurt :D

Have you ever had the ankle x-ray'ed? maybe there is an old break or small something that contributes to the easy twists, hopefully it could be repaired/corrected?

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

It was before we got to know you before we started with the guild.

[cosmicirony.livejournal.com]

This is why I wear my steel-toed work boots when working around the yard or forge - my toes have been weight-magnets too many times.

(I'm Justin from game night, btw)

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Sadly I have trouble wearing boots because of the ankles. Anything that goes up past them usually causes them to hurt. I still will wear them when shoveling snow or the equiv. But, that's about the only time.

[saeble.livejournal.com]

I'd say you're just like me. Your ankle has a half dozen supporting ligaments and then the drivers. What tends to happen with repeated injury is the complete snapping of the supporting ligaments leaving the driving ligaments to do all the work of both making the joint work and supporting it at the same time, hence you end up with rubbery ankles.

and its 'heel'.... ;)

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

It's not like the priest spell?

[saeble.livejournal.com]

nah, thats Wing Clip :)

damage and
movement speed cut 50%

[morgan-lafaye.livejournal.com]

Sorry your ankle keeps miss-behaving. Could wearing one of those support braces help at all?

[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I hate it when a body part opts to "remember forever" and continue re-injuring itself. I'm sorry.