The ankle saga

Ok, so I noticed when going through my pictures of the trip, that I took a lot of pictures of my foot. I couldn't drive at all, and sitting in the passanger seat for 10-12 hours a day for four and a half days straight got to be pretty boring. I took pictures of all kinds of weird things, which I will not be posting on the blog. But, I did take lots of pictures of my ever changing ankle. Unfortunately, I don't feel that the pictures really represent how my ankle and foot actually looked.
The bruising was much darker, and spread to all over the bottom outside portion of my foot, and the top of my foot reaching to all my toes, except my big toe. When it was rapped up in an ace bandage, it look pretty nasty and John kept saying my foot looked like it was dying. It swelled up pretty big and had a big knot right on the outside bone that sticks out on your ankle, except my foot was so swollen it didn't look like I had that bone. I still have a big knot right there and a little above it. Unfortunately it wasn't very easy to stretch out or elevate my foot in the cramped car, or get much ice on it. I worked too hard on it before and after our actual drive out west and now feels very stiff. I need to do the stretching exercises the doctor gave me and hopefully it will return to normal in a few weeks.
Right after we got to Vancouver, we needed to go shopping for new furniture, so I used the motorized carts they have for handicapped people. At first it was really fun, but soon got to be very embarassing and inconvenient. Especially at Ikea where they only have actual wheel chairs that I had to be pushed around in.
For the mean time, I can't run at all and it really bumbs me out. There's no way we can afford a gym membership, nor would I have the time to go with John's new schedule at the DA's office. Currently we are looking into buying an eliptical. That will do me a world of good.
So, sorry if this was too boring. It's interesting to me so I thought I'd share.