A Blog Mini-Series: Ankle FAIL Part III

*****WARNING*****

THE CANKLE IS TURNING BLUE NOW.  THIS IS BOTH EXCITING AND GROSS ALL AT THE SAME TIME.  If you are grossed out by swelling or bruising, then come back to the blog after I am done having fun showing off my war wound.  That is all.

*****END OF WARNING*****

Alright!  Time for the weekend update.  The bugger has finally started to show its true colors.  I spent most of yesterday watching movies and such.  Been pretty relaxing so far.

Our dear friend, Brad Wilcox, came over last night for dinner.  We (shall I say, Jess) did it up right.  We had back strap and polish sausage (thank you, Fred the Deer), an awesome salad, and both sweet potato and waffle fries.  It was exceptional.

The boys (Rusty, Evan, and Jeremy) were also without a mother, so they came over for dinner too.  It was way fun.  

Jess finished off the evening by making us cinnamon rolls from scratch.

Yea, I nearly had a conniption they were so good.

So who is up for a little ANKLE FAIL?  I know I am.  Let's bring on the bruises.

Now for the inside:

I have now hopefully succeeded in making you hungry and slightly nauseous in about 20 seconds.

Now I will show you pictures of the puppy taking a nap with me yesterday so that you will think she is cute and not want to hurt me.

Gosh, she is ridiculously cute if I may say so myself.

That's all for this edition of Ankle FAIL.    Take 30 seconds and write us a comment.  I can't decide if you all will like/hate this Mini Series.  I would love some feedback.

Mr. Cankle

A Blog Mini-Series: Ankle FAIL Part II

Day two of the ankle FAIL here:

Yep, those are bruises starting to peak through there.

I literally think that you can pick out how many stitches in my ankle brace are there because they imprint into the swelling so clearly...Kind of weird.   Ok, really weird.

So I have this awesome brace that I've been using to keep the swelling pushed out of the FAIL joint...Here's the coolest part:

Is it childish that I find this picture fascinating?  The fluid has "puddled" right above where the ankle brace ends.  Incredible.

Ok, that's enough gross/weird pictures for the night.  Back to watching the Thunder (hopefully) beat the Lakers to force a game seven.

Man, I seriously dislike the Lakers.

Thanks and Gig'em,

Mr. Hill Cankle

A Blog Mini-Series: Ankle FAIL

WARNING:
This blog series is about the progression of the FAIL of my left ankle.  It will have potentially gross pictures, and it is not for the faint of heart and/or stomach.

END OF WARNING.



My ankle is in a sad state of affairs.

I play basketball at least twice a week.  Every week.  Like clockwork.  It is a very important part of my life/stress relief.

I was playing on Wednesday.  I went up to block a guy's shot who is particular hard to block.  A buddy of mine came down the baseline toward us in order to help.  The guy missed the shot, my buddy came down to the ground before me (my ankle is beginning to hurt just thinking about this), and I landed with my full 240 lb self on top of his foot.

*****OUCH******

Lots of hobbling, lying down on the side of the court, ice, disbelief, some pain, anger, more ice, frustration.

Lots more hobbling.

Yesterday was certainly a tough day.  Not being able to play basketball for the next month is one thing.

ADD INSULT 2 INJURY?  Why not?

Warrior Dash is this weekend.  I have been training for a couple of months for this race.  It was to be the first 5K of my young life.  Pretty generally frustrating/brutal.

Seriously, Jess is pretty much the only reason that I have remained sane.

So, here are some pictures of my ankle cankle.  I've had so much worse when it comes to ankle sprains.  Thankfully, it is certainly not the worst, but it does look pretty goofy.

Some bruises.  I wish you all could see how weird it looks where my ankle brace has been.  It has pushed the swelling into a not right above it.  Pretty gross majorly awesome.

Not all bruises in the below pic.  Shadows mostly.  The bruises haven't started to show up yet.

Yea, most certainly a cankle.

Yea, more Ankle FAIL to follow.  I can't wait to see the bruises.


Mr. Hill