Death by Stairs

So a couple of weeks ago I was about to leave my mom's to meet up with some friends from work, for an awesome Korean dinner. I headed down the stairs as I was checking out the map on the GPS and found myself on the on the platform of the stairs with my head against the wall and my feet in the air, thinking, do I scream, do I cry or do I get up and pretend nothing happened. So I laughed under my breath and thought if I can walk on it I'll be fine. So I stood up and out the door I went.

I called Dick and ask him if he heard me fall.. He hadn't heard though I am sure he would have gotten a good laugh from it.

I didn't want to spoil the dinner fun by making a fool of myself so I think I told Kristen and left it at that. It was okay that night it didn't feel completely horrible! As long as I didn't put too much pressure on it I was good. So I continue on with the night and into the next day.

I went to work were I was limping a little but it was that noticeable. Then, it being my last day at work, Dick came in for lunch. I hadn't looked that close but I proceeded to pull my pant leg up to take a look and show Dick and my mom that it wasn't that bad. As I pulled my jeans back I noticed that my ankle was HUGE! It was about three times the size of my other ankle.

(I will be the first to say feet are awful things so I apologize if you are disgusted by this next picture. Just don't look too closely. Also this is after some of the swelling had gone down! It was HUGE!)


As Dick went off to install I assured him that I would ice it when I got home. I continued to class and once I sat down I saw my mom enter the class room with a bag of ice and a bandage. I then wrapped my ankle and was noticeably limping for the rest of the day. It was a lot harder to hide it and walk on it with that ice and bandage connected.

All of the kids were asking me what I did. I just laughed about it. Stairs can be dangerous. Luckily as the weeks have gone by it is almost back to normal. It rarely hurts at all anymore.

The moral of this story is Pay attention as you walk down the stairs!