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So, while playing Ultimate Frisbee yesterday evening, not only did I fall twice due to my useless cleats, but I ended up twisting my left ankle pretty badly, and watched the rest of the game on the sidelines. Naturally, that was the last straw for those clown shoes (they’re too big for me anyway), so I sentenced them to eternal suffering in a garbage dump somewhere… most likely Michigan, as I believe that is still where Toronto ships it’s garbage.

Anyway, it hurt to walk upon, but I didn’t think that it was that bad of a sprain. However, when I tried getting to sleep, my ankle would just NOT stop throbbing. It just seemed that no matter which way I lay in bed, it would just hurt. All in all, I think I got about two hours of sleep. I am a frikkin’ zombie today.

This morning, I asked my Dad for a ride to Toronto General Hospital to get it checked out, as everyone was telling me to do so. After waiting for two hours to be seen, I was told that it was just a bad sprain, that an x-ray was not necessary, and just to wrap a tensor bandage around my ankle, keep off it for a few weeks, and pop an Advil should the pain be too much to handle.

…so… pretty much do what anyone with a brain would figure you’re supposed to do should you sprain your ankle. Glad I waited two hours for that. Personally, I would have liked to have an x-ray done just to be sure, but what can ya do?

What sucks is that this means I’m not able to go spinning, ride my bike, or play Ultimate for a while. However, it does mean that I get to go buy some new cleats, ones that will actually grip the terrain I’m on, and also not have an extra inch of toe space like my last ones did. Also, the actual cleats were directly below my foot, and not distributed out to the sides at all, which made it feel like I was running with ice skates on. Useless, and an accident waiting to happen… which happened a few times too many.

Ah well. Guess I’ll just have to sit on my ass for a while.

Darn.

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