You need an X’ray dude. In the meantime, keep it elevated!
Don’t worry, if it’s broken chances are you’ll be out of action for 3 months but should be back in time for your 24hr race in May. When I had my ankle screwed back together in June '02 I was back doing a 12hr race in October '02.
Wish you a speedy recovery!
p/s I’m pretty sure crepitation is more in reference to the sound that arthritic joints make as the bone ends grind together.
pp/s I think I posted in the wrong thread, with regard my reference to the poll
This is Mrs.Spickydoo. (I can’t post under my much better nic) I thought I’d let you know that Rich is doing much better, and he is limping around the house now. The ankle is completely revolting with many colours. The doctor said it was not broken.
I was under the impression that the frontal lobe on men matured when they hit 25 or so, but apparently I was highly misinformed.
I hope this is the worst that is going to happen to him. I can picture it now, 5 years from now…
Daughter:“Mommy, how come I don’t have a Daddy?”
Mrs. Spickydoo:" Well, sweetie, it was a horrible unicycle accident…"
HA! What a sissy. I remember the last time MY ankle looked like that because it was BOTH ankles. I jumped off of a 400 foot radio tower because I was too lazy to climb down. I misjudged my landing and hit the edge of the roof of a 1957 Buick and sprained them both. I swore bitterly knowing that I had to go to work in 15 minutes and shovel 12 tons of coal into a train car. I made it to work with 8 minutes to spare and proceeded to shovel 14 tons of coal during my shift. Then I ran the 35 miles home and thought about icing my ENORMOUS ankles but decided, nah, that would be too SISSY. So I ate a block of concrete for dinner and went to bed on a pile of broken glass. I pushed a refrigerator onto my ankles and the pressure from that took down the swelling quite a bit.
Mrs. Spickydoo,
I am glad to hear it isn’t broken. I am sure he will recover quickly if you just wait on him hand and foot for a while. That’s what my wife did, but now the paybacks have been hell. I actually painted the bathroom last weekend.
In the unlikely event of someones unicycling demise, one should say “It was an amazing display of unicycling skill and daring, with a rather unfortunate outcome”. Or something to that effect.
That’s what my wife did, but now the paybacks have been hell. I actually painted the bathroom last weekend. 