6/26/07 - Day 10

So a few days ago I was talking with a friend of mine who recently recovered from his own personal variety of ankle annihilation and he said ‘have you hit day 10 yet?’ I looked at him quizzically and said, “nope.” But then I had to count how many days it had been, which was 6. When do you stop counting in days and move to weeks? Is there some rule like with babies, they’re 18 months but not 24 months b/c then they’re 2 yrs old.

Anyway back to the days-o-healing count. So I told him that I was at day 6 and he asked how the swelling was and I said that it hadn’t really gone down much but wasn’t getting worse. And then he leaned over a bit and said in a super secret pinky swear sort of way “wait until day 10. All your swelling will just disappear.” I sort of looked at him like, yea ok thanks for sharing but I doubt all this swelling is just going to vanish b/c its day 10. Undeterred by my look of unbridled skepticism, he said “No really. My doctor told me that on day 10 I would see a massive decrease in the swelling and he was right.” He went on to say that almost all of the swelling was gone by day 10 and never returned and that the pain didn’t really subside but his range of motion rapidly increased – b/c all that puffed up flesh was out of the way I presume.

So, guess what today is? It is Day 10. And guess what else, he wasn’t kidding. Had I actually spoken the sentiments conveyed by my facial expression I would be sidling up to a big plate of ‘my own words’ right now. He was inexplicably correct. I mean my ankle is almost back to normal size. Its still a little deformed looking but it no longer looks like I have a softball for a joint. Its like someone stole into my room last night and deflated my ankle. Pure magic. I wish I had taken pictures so I could show you the Before and After. Just imagine Before and After pictures of what’s her face on that TrimSpa crud. That’s pretty much what its like only way better b/c it happened magically and not via some chemically toxic weight loss drug.

Oh and also, he was right about the pain not subsiding with the same magical speed as the swelling. Range of motion has improved. All in all this was a rock star day. Hip, hip, hooray for day 10.