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3:26pm July 29, 2014

I hurt my leg AGAIN.

So I injured my left leg again.  I was walking along and my ankle just twisted under me and I went down for no apparent reason.  At least this time it wasn’t my fault.  (Last time I injured my leg it was doing something the physical therapist had told me not to do, about five minutes after she told me not to do it, so I can’t blame anyone but myself there.)

So now my foot hurts.  I think it’s a strain, nothing serious, not even a sprain, from the feel of it.  And probably caused by hypermobility, since my joints tend to flex more than they should and my ankles are really unstable without braces.

[Note: I talk about stomach bleeding in the following paragraph but it’s not dangerous stomach bleeding, according to my gastroenterologist.  Not that it’s desirable, it’s just not major in any way and I’m not going to die.]

I have ibuprofen, but I don’t dare use it, even though it would cut down on swelling and it’s really the only med I have that would.  Tylenol won’t.  But with the bleeding in my stomach the other day, and the fact that after the blood came out of my stoma, I’ve had two days of nonstop blood clots coming out of my g-tube, I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t risk another few days of ibuprofen.  (Ibuprofen can cause or exacerbate stomach bleeding.  I have an injury in my stomach that tends to bleed when even mildly irritated.  It’s not a danger to me, it’s just a nuisance.  And yesterday and the day before, I was getting like… groups of 20 or more blood clots coming out of the g-tube when I burped it, which is… more than ever comes out.  So I need to lay off the ibuprofen, I think, even if it probably did help my leg last week.

I don’t know WTF is with the world wanting me to injure my left leg at the moment.  I’m hoping this is just one of those passing things.  The knee stopped hurting on Friday but started hurting again yesterday.  And now I’ve got lots of parts of my foot hurting.  Not the ankle, more like the side of my foot where all the little tiny bones are.  That area tends to be the area I injure if I twist my feet, because they fold a bit in that spot where they shouldn’t, and then soft tissue gets torn a bit I think.

Anyway, this doesn’t feel like a big deal, so I hope it doesn’t turn into one.  That way injuries sometimes do, where you feel fine at first and then it gets worse.  I’m mostly concerned that walking on it will make me liable to falling more, even that the injury to my knee might have caused today’s fall or contributed to it anyway.  My knee was hurting a lot right before I fell, so it could be my knee bent some weird way and then my ankle twisted to compensate and everything went to hell.

Fortunately there was someone right there to help me up, because I couldn’t seem to un-twist my ankle until I got up.  

Anyway, I was able to buy gum and go home okay, so walking on it doesn’t seem that bad.  But I should probably be careful.  I was really glad I had a cane, that helped a lot getting home.