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Major Setback

Yesterday I was at a trampoline place with some friends from work and even though I used to train in trampolining for years, I landed funny on my ankle and it cracked. An hour later and I was getting put into my first ambulance and taken off to hospital. By 6pm I was being discharged with a referral to an orthopaedic surgeon and a boot sitting place as my ankle is fractured.

I've never felt pain like this before. Even after all the chronic pain and everything I've been going through the past couple of years, when I woke up early this morning after sleeping on and off all night the pain was just too intense. Like screaming for my parents and sobbing intense. I can't find any position that is even remotely comfortable or slightly less painful. This is going to be a long recovery. And due to the fracture, I can't continue with my hip rehab, so that will have to be put on hold for 6-8 weeks, possibly longer due to my Ehlers Danlos syndrome and my faulty collagen.

Now I'm lying on the couch, where I will be all day, not able to move, work or even go to the bathroom by myself.

Just another setback.
Have to wait for the swelling to go down before I get my boot

The 'Green Whistle'. So high!

Everything was seriously funny. Could still feel the pain though.

Ambulance arriving. Everyone clapped me out when we left.

My parents arrived just in time to come to hospital with me.

BB :)

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