Ankles and Anniversarys

Yesterday I went for a recheck of my ankle.  It was after work and when I got there my ankle was really swollen.  He told me not to worry about it. It will probably swell like that until summer. ( oh goody)  The good news is he  thinks it looks good.   Im ok to hike.  I told him I did a mild hike on Sunday and the next day my ankle hurt the whole day.  He said that was ok. If it hurts  3 days after a hike, I need to call him.  Also the lower outside edge of my lower leg hurts.  He asked me if I had been using the rubber bands and doing the exercises. (uh , no)   Well I need to.  That area of my leg is sore because my muscle are weak and I need to build them back up.  I did the exercises last night and now my ankle is really sore. No pain , no gain,   Right?   Im ok to run in straight lines too.  No front crosses until 2 more weeks, then add them in slowly.  My back is feeling better too. It no long kills me to pull up my pants, give the dogs treats or clip their leashes on.  Its still sore but much better. 
Monday night I went to teach the agility class for our club.  At the rate the one lady's yorkies are "Qing" she will have higher titles them me probably in the next trail she goes to. LOL I did run Miley but not much. I would only run the sequence once, what ever happened, happened.  And the last time I ran a shorter sequence than everyone else. I didnt do any front crosses, only rears.  I work the teeter there and she was perfect.  I also worked her tables.  I guess I dont know what excites my dog.  I brought popcorn because at home the dogs go crazy for popcorn.  It would show up well in the grass.  So I ran her to the table and threw the popcorn on the ground right before she  got to the table.  She could have cared less.  Even when I released her from the table , she didnt go get the popcorn.  So much for that distraction.  I had also brought a treat bag and threw that. She was able to work pass that too.  So I need to find a more exciting distraction.

These were the other pictures from the park. Guiness wasnt happy about the water fall (tiny one) by the bridge. Silly dog.

There is the little water fall. Of course I couldnt get Guiness in this picture at all.

"My mom is a lazy dog owner. She doesnt even carry bottled water for me so I have to drink this crap.  Its disgusting"

O yea, Anniversaries.  Yesterday was our 22nd wedding anniversary.  We went to "Outback" and I ate way to much. 

Another Update

On Friday I will admit that I ran Miley in my yard and did some agility. Nothing tough. When I was done my ankle hurt like heck. Ugh!  I started freaking out. How am I going to do these seminars?   Yesterday I did walk at the park but used a crutch to keep some of the weight off my foot.  It still hurt to do that. But when I got home I didnt have any increase in pain so that was good.  While around the house I dont use crutches at all.  Today I wanted to try the park without crutches.  I did the sports wrap like they showed me at the doctors office and put on the brace.  I cant fit into any of my tennis shoes comfortably with the brace on.  Even my bigger tennis shoes.  So I tried my summer shoes I use when I want to walk but also go in the river. These work great!  They are my old ones so getting stretched out isnt a problem.

 I did well walking at the park.  Im not fast but Im able to put full weight on it for a distance. And when I got home no increase in swelling or pain. My ankle/leg/foot is almost back to normal swelling wise.

And just so you dont think I only take pictures of my ugly legs and feet.  Here is a beautiful picture of Stephanie from last night. She was in a DECA competition and won 5th place for her category.

Ankle Update

Sorry I havent posted much this week. But really I all do is go to work, come home and ice and elevate my ankle.  Miley is beside herself that nothing is happening. She just can't believe we dont walk at all. LOL  Today I went to see an Ortho doctor just to get some more information on my ankle and what I should be doing to fix it.  They took more x-rays.  I have soft tissue swelling and small joint effusion.  He told me most people go there whole life and dont sprain their ankle as bad as Ive sprained mine. Then he said if I were in the NFL they would just tape me up and send me back out there. LOL  He told me I was lucky. I have a bad grade 2 sprain.If it were just a little worse and I couldnt do any agility.  But he said I could walk on it without crutches and that I wasnt hurting it.  I asked if the splint was holding the swelling in the ankle and lower leg. He laughed and said no. The splint was a good splint but not useful to run agility in.  He gave me another splint to run agility in.  That splint cost 430.00. Holy cow , I hope my insurance pays for it.  Then he had someone show me how to tape my ankle under the splint to run agility in.  I have strenght exercises to do with an exercise band. Also Im to do contrast baths: Soak your foot in a bucket cold water for 2 minutes and then soak in a bucket of hot water for 2 minutes alternating back and forth  for a total of 30 minutes twice a day. Normally he wouldnt recommend running on my ankle but understood about the agility camps and the money I spent. So I should be ok with the tape and new splint. But he said if I twist it at all, I have to stop and Im done. No more agility until its healed. It will take 2 months to completely heal.

Getting better

My ankle is getting better.  I can now touch my foot on the floor without pain. Well that could be because of the pain medication but I dont think so.  I think it looks better too. I can wiggle my toes without difficulty now too.

That big lump is now gone so wearing the air cast/splint thing no longer hurts.  Im not sure why they call it an air cast because I doesnt have any air in it. Maybe is had to do with the company that makes it.

My ankle

Funny how things work out.  I first was going to go to a trial in Savannah because my parents live there and a club was having a B-match on  Friday. I figured I could work on Miley's table.   But I decided not to do that. Then I was going to go the the park I always go to but my husband went running there and took the pass. So I thought I would go downtown to the park with the big man- made waterfall and take pictures.  Then changed my mind again and went to the river front park. I should have done any of the other things but this last one.  Shortly after getting to the park I hurt myself. I was walking down the asphalt path which has a 2 inch drop off the side. I rolled my ankle and fell like a sack of rocks to the ground.  First I was embarrassed for falling in front of a bunch of people and then my ankle hurt so bad it took everything I had to not cry.   A very nice man came over and offered to help me up.  I told him I needed a minute to get myself together because it was hurting so bad.  He was nice and waited.  After the pain let up he helped me to a bench. Guiness wasnt happy about this. I was worried he would go after the guy . Guiness is very unstrusting of me. But he did ok.  I figured I would just rest on the bench for a while and see if things got better.  I could feel it swelling while I rested.   I really wanted to try to make it back to my car without looking like I needed assistance.    I did manage to make it the 1/2 mile back to my car with really not much discomfort at all.  Then I got to the car and took my shoe and sock off.

Oh boy that didnt look good. ( this picture was when I got home but it looked the same) I called my husband from the car and he said he would help me bring the dogs in when I got home.  I laughed and told him I didnt need help. If I could walk 1/2 a mile to the car why would I need help bringing the dogs in. ( Do you see a pattern here with me not needing anyones help. LOL) Well... by the time I got home I couldnt put any weight on my foot.  My husband had to help me into the house and then go get the dogs.  LOL   About an hour later I told him we probably should go to urgent care and get it looked at. I didnt think it was broken but I would probably need some pain medication.  A friend of mine  gave me some crutches so I could walk.   It took forever at the urgent care. I got a shot of Toradol in the butt. I told my husband if I knew it was given in the butt I wouldnt have agreed to it. Man did that shot burn. Made me forget about my ankle for a while. Then they x-rayed it and said it wasnt broken. Gave me a brace and pain medication.    So Im home again doing the rest , elevation and ice thing.   She said in a couple of days I should be able to put  weight on it again. I hope so.  I have a Mary Ellen Barry seminar on next Monday and then 3 days later I have an agility camp in Florida to go to.  Ive been looking forward to that for months!!  Im going even if I cant run.
Here are some pictures from this morning.

 I have more pictures but none of my pictures turned out to well.  I post more maybe tomorrow. And the reason there are always more of miley is she can be trusted off leash more than Guiness