Ankle update and grocery shopping
Mar. 16th, 2020 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carbonelIt's been almost three weeks since I slipped on some ice and sprained my ankle and injured my knee.
I stopped using the crutches after a week and a half, because the injury had recovered sufficiently that I could walk mostly normally, though still with some pain. Unfortunately, things seem to have stalled since then. It still hurts somewhat to walk (2 to 3 on the scale of 10), but hurts rather more to go down stairs (4 or 5). I saw the orthopedist last Thursday, and he gave me the choice of waiting a week to see if things continue to improve or run further tests, such as an MRI. I said I'd wait, but I think more tests may be indicated. According to both Wikipedia and people I've talked to, sprains are suppose to be mostly resolved after two weeks. The knee is slowly improving, but it still hurts, too.
In other news, I went to the grocery today (Target) because I realized my refrigerator and freezer were looking pretty empty. There was plenty of food in the store, but lots of bare shelves. No gallon bottles of drinking water, but a good supply of distilled water (which I need for my CPAP). Commercial bread shelves almost empty, but plenty of bread in the bakery section. No Diet Coke in 2-liter bottles, but there were 12-packs, which I bought one of, even though I much prefer the bottles. No pasta except for large shells and a couple of packages of no-yolk egg noodles; I bought one of the latter. There was neither a crowd nor an empty store, and the parking lot looked about like usual.
Mostly I bought the things I normally do. My only stocking up (or panic buying, if you prefer) was baking supplies: two pounds of butter, and five pounds each of sugar and flour. I already had a stock of the sugar and flour, so this was excess to current needs. But I will go through it eventually, and if I feel like stress-baking, I'm set. I also bought a California Pizza Kitchen BBQ chicken frozen pizza as a treat for myself.
The Diet Coke had been at the base of the cart, not in the basket. When I got home, I realized I'd forgotten to move it from the cart to the car. And I only had one 2-liter bottle left, so I had to go back to get it. Luckily, Target is a short drive away, and even more luckily, the 12-pack was exactly where I'd left it in the cart in the parking lot. The things one does for one's addictions...
I stopped using the crutches after a week and a half, because the injury had recovered sufficiently that I could walk mostly normally, though still with some pain. Unfortunately, things seem to have stalled since then. It still hurts somewhat to walk (2 to 3 on the scale of 10), but hurts rather more to go down stairs (4 or 5). I saw the orthopedist last Thursday, and he gave me the choice of waiting a week to see if things continue to improve or run further tests, such as an MRI. I said I'd wait, but I think more tests may be indicated. According to both Wikipedia and people I've talked to, sprains are suppose to be mostly resolved after two weeks. The knee is slowly improving, but it still hurts, too.
In other news, I went to the grocery today (Target) because I realized my refrigerator and freezer were looking pretty empty. There was plenty of food in the store, but lots of bare shelves. No gallon bottles of drinking water, but a good supply of distilled water (which I need for my CPAP). Commercial bread shelves almost empty, but plenty of bread in the bakery section. No Diet Coke in 2-liter bottles, but there were 12-packs, which I bought one of, even though I much prefer the bottles. No pasta except for large shells and a couple of packages of no-yolk egg noodles; I bought one of the latter. There was neither a crowd nor an empty store, and the parking lot looked about like usual.
Mostly I bought the things I normally do. My only stocking up (or panic buying, if you prefer) was baking supplies: two pounds of butter, and five pounds each of sugar and flour. I already had a stock of the sugar and flour, so this was excess to current needs. But I will go through it eventually, and if I feel like stress-baking, I'm set. I also bought a California Pizza Kitchen BBQ chicken frozen pizza as a treat for myself.
The Diet Coke had been at the base of the cart, not in the basket. When I got home, I realized I'd forgotten to move it from the cart to the car. And I only had one 2-liter bottle left, so I had to go back to get it. Luckily, Target is a short drive away, and even more luckily, the 12-pack was exactly where I'd left it in the cart in the parking lot. The things one does for one's addictions...
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Date: 2020-03-17 12:37 am (UTC)Is your mom home and safe from her voyaging?
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Date: 2020-03-17 03:39 am (UTC)Now she's back in Chicago, and is going to spend a day or two per week with her new great-grandson, because his mother will be working from home (her leave is just ending), which is hard to do with a baby in tow.
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Date: 2020-03-17 02:05 am (UTC)After MONTHS AND MONTHS I googled "pt exercises foot sprain" and tried the ones I found and my foot was fully better in a week or two.
So -- if you're inclined to stay out of clinics right now if at all possible (I am) my suggestion is that you google up the standard PT for post-sprain ankle rehab and give it a (slow, gentle) try and see if it helps.
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Date: 2020-03-17 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-17 03:07 am (UTC)K.
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Date: 2020-03-17 03:43 am (UTC)The fall was particularly annoying because it happened on a nice warm day -- which meant (a) I wasn't expecting ice so was caught unwary, and (b) it had a slick of water over it, so extra slippery.