Ankle update...

I had my appointment last Tuesday to have my ankle looked at. Yes, I waited too long to do it, but at least I did. It is still swollen with a wee bit of bruising...not that *I* could see it, but the doctor could. He gave me a prescription for Naproxen (same thing Alleve is made of, but in a much higher dose) for the swelling and inflamation but also samples of Nexium to take in order to prevent the high dosage of the Naproxen from ripping my stomach to shreds. With my stomach, that is a good thing. I didn't really bring up my suspicions about having IBS, though I sorta mumbled it as he was getting the samples. We did discuss doing a physical since I haven't had one done in a while and he is a new doc to me (my former doc became a military doc). He also had me get my ankle x-rayed to be sure. I haven't heard back so that is usually good. He said if the swelling wasn't better in a week, that I was to go to a podiatrist, and he gave me a referral. It doesn't hurt quite so much today, and I can move it around a little more comfortably than before, but I don't think the swelling has changed much so far.

The other thing is that the day I took those smoke pics on the way to the bus, I tripped and fell on my hands and knees (on the sidewalk mind you), and as it were, the knee on the left side (same as ankle injury) has a big bruise. I have a small mark on my left thumb too. Other than that, I am fine. I just feel odd that I have been so clumsy trippy lately. I haven't done anything different that I am aware of. I caught myself from tripping again today, more than a few times. Seriously, I don't know what is up.

But that is the ankle update so far.