I'm a bit grumpy, I was playing basketball last night, and sprained my left ankle. I was fouled and landed on another guy's foot, and then sat on my own ankle, and basically spilled onto the floor after that...

The first question that the doctor asked was "Did you hear anything pop?"
I replied, "I don't know, I was too busy screaming..."

On Pete's pain threshold chart it was a definitive 10 when I did it, and then subsided to about a 4 by the time I got to the ER. After the X-ray, I found out nothing is fractured, but I do have a bit of "Schmootz" on the inside...I guess that's the technical term for 14 years of high jumping on the same side...

Luckily I've never hurt it before, so I plan on a quick recovery, and I intend to jump again on the 19th at Berkeley and again at Long Beach the following weekend.

I've heard of fast recoveries from sprains, so I'm going to ice like a champ.

The goal of 2.06 by March 31 still stands.

-Z
- posted by Pete Ippel @ 2:33 PM