Sad times....

April 15th,

I am bouldering, having a good time, made it to the top of boulder route 5, reaching for the last hold to complete the route. I miss it by cm's. My right hand slips, then my right leg. I swing back from the force of the slip causing me to lose my left foot and hand holds. I fall towards the crash mat. My right half makes it safely to the mat, my left side is not so lucky....

My right foot hit the very edge of the mat and then rolled off, causing me to pretty much take the brunt of the fall on my right leg. After some maneuvering and A LOT of help from some of the guys and girls at the gym (to whom I am eternally grateful) I made it to the emergency room, where after a few hours I was on a stretcher awaiting x-rays. Diagnosis was a broken ankle, but not just any broken ankle, I broke both sides. I was in the hospital from Tuesday until Monday. The Friday in between I had surgery to hold everything together which resulted in what I like to call my new Bionic ankle. I have a plate and four screws on my outside right ankle and three pins in my inside right ankle. I am casted for 6 weeks, no weight, and then hopefully I will get a walking cast for the same amount of time, and then I have physio to go through. Long process, but I am committed! I want to get back at all my goals eventually.... they have just been diverted for the time being.

Present,

Right now small goals are big accomplishments. For example, I made it from the kitchen to the living room (10 feet) with a whole plate of food without dropping it yesterday! Seems simple enough, until you realize I was on crutches. Today I am going to start doing some laps on crutches in my hall as I was told by my dad that I need to work up my endurance on the crutches. They are seriously harder to use then they look! You get tired really really quickly! So for now my blog posts will consist of my mini-accomplishments and my progress through this fun broken ankle. I hope I don't bore you too much....