Feeling every second of my age

I like to think I am quite young at heart.

Today is not a day when that has been very convincing. Well... maybe young at heart but certainly not young in spirit.

I am absolutely shattered.

I have found it such a struggle today to do all I need to do on crutches. Even the simplest things have taken on mammoth proportions.

I ache absolutely everywhere.

My shoulders ache, my arms ache, my hands ache, my hip aches and my ankle - the roots of it all - that aches too. I hate having to ask people to move things/carry things.

I haven't been able to elevate it much at all today and so it is back to mammoth proportions. Since I have been home I have sat with my leg up but I am just so fed up and tired and achey. It is not like me to feel this down.

I spent months on crutches when I orginally shattered my ankle but I was 12. I had stamina and eneregy and a body that wasn't easily strained. Now I feel shattered at even the thought of another day like today.

I think the crutches have to go and I must suffer the consequences. I really do.

Onbiously no scrapping - unlikely to be for a while to be honest.

But I do have a page I made a while ago.

 

It is one of the Austrian album pages. I really must upload the others and finish the album. I did really well with it and managed 20 pages in record time, but it has sort of been side-lined and so I must get on and finish it.

Anyway - Lake Achensee (Of the Chalet School fame)

 

Today I am thankful for

• being home with my leg raised
• support bandages
• not crying with pain and frustration even though I felt like it. 

 

 

Comments

[Ladkyis]

Please listen to the doctor! My husband sprained the ligaments in his ankle playing Frisbee Golf and he was in plaster for a month and off work for three months.
Don't assume because it isn't broken that it isn't serious. Ligaments do not have a good blood supply so they heal slowly, very slowly. Do not try to hurry it by putting weight on the foot to quickly. I really can't stress this enough. If you rush things now you WILL pay for it later. Allow people to help you, fold up your pride and put it in a drawer. Let people around you be useful they will love it and you can do something nice for them later as an unexpected reward. Please don't struggle and push yourself.... I am nagging now so I'll shut up. Sending you healing hugs

[Barb in AK]

I'll nag, too! As much as the crutches are a hassle, please stick with them!