ouchie ankle!

[aralli]

The Housemate has a swollen, painful ankle that is hot to the touch and won't bear weight. We are going with RICE for now, and if there is no improvement when I get home from work I'll take her to the doctor's. Until then - any suggestions? Any advice on use of a bandage? She has one wrapped around the ankle right now to prevent her from accidentally turning it and hurting, but neither of us have expertise in how to treat a sprained ankle.

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[appyamy.livejournal.com]

Just to add that I am able to limp around and the swelling has gone down a lot since this morning. I thankfully don't have a matching pair (my right ankle has been broken previously from a riding accident) but it is bloody annoying.

It's my own stupid thought though as the three possible points where I may have knocked it involved me jumping from one point to another. I stood out of most of the final fight to take a drink and catch my breath while Glamoria healed the IC damaged left leg. I either did it:

At the bottom of the bank as we came down into the valley, in the hole I found behind the mound or when I jumped down the mound to begin my ic healing and ooc drink.

Another interesting thing was that it didn't hurt that much until I got out of the car at home and was then obviously worse this morning.

[xanthipe]

Yeah, that sounds familiar - the wrist waited until I was alone in the house at 2am to suddenly go "...and PAIN!"

Good to hear that it's not too serious, please try not to undo the healing through boredom :P