Oh my god I ruined my foot

So I'm sure all you chumps have heard by now about what I did to my foot during my recent trip to Queenstown. My grade 2 injury to a ligament in my ankle, which I managed to do in the first 10 minutes of the first day skiing (15/08/05). Hooray.

I did it by doing a super turn which made be go backwards, then proceeded to fall over backwards. It would've all been fine if my boot was done up tight enough, but alas it was not. I felt the pop of the ligament as it tore. Yummy.

I managed to keep off it for 2 days (the day I did it and the next day) but the urge to ski was too strong, and I was there to ski after all, so why the fuck should I be sitting on my arse in the hotel room being bored out of my brain? At least I got free Physio courtesy of the NZ Government; gotta love their health care system.

Heres photos (note that the day numbers count from the day that I did it):


Day 1. Right after I did the fucker. This was when I was in the first aid room. It didn't hurt TOO much, but I was worried that I'd broken it and gone into shock. I managed to pull my boot off (which I was told off for later on), and got a free ride on a skidoo down to the first aid room.


Day 1. Holy fucking shit look at the size of that lump (sorry bout the shit blurry quality, but its fucking hard to take a foto of your damaged foot with one hand). The Physio up on the mountain said its the biggest swelling hes ever seen for the type of injury (mad props to me). This was taken after I got home from the slopes after doing it.


Day 2. Woo. After my first visit to the Physio, the whole consultation cost me $8 NZ due to the strapping. I spent the whole of this day in the hotel room, which was boring as fuck.


Day 2. That night. Check out the bruising thats starting to come out.


Day 3. More bruising. I went skiing this day for the first time since it happened. It wasn't too bad though I did have a bit of a hard time trying to turn.


Day 4. Even more bruising. More skiing was had this day.


Day 5. More bruising and more skiing.


Day 6. More bruising. Its hard to see, but I started getting bruising down the side of the foot and a little up near my toes. The foot also had a slight tinge of blue to it.


Well thats it. One blog post dedicated to my injury. Real photos to follow soon.