really ankle?

Here's the deal ya'll, I'm officially scheduled to go in for ankle surgery in a few days!....what i have a hurt ankle you say? ...yes...its been a year coming, and i kept putting it off and hoping that it would just get better on its own, and that has yet to happen...therefore i went to the Doc's yesterday and I am now penciled in his surgery schedule.

This whole ankle issue is kinda ridiculous...and kinda embarrassing once i tell the story of how it happened. Every time someone asks me how i hurt it...and every time i say the words "dance aerobics" i wince a little bit...really Dance. Aerobics.

You see as a youngster i did Gymnastics for 10 years...rolled my ankle god knows how many times, and nothing really came of it. I just wrapped it for a couple of days and it was good as new. I did cheerleading both competitively and for my high school for 9 years....and never once hurt the thing. Then comes my 5th Semester at csu Stanislaus....I took a Dance Aerobics class to fulfill a PE credit. It was a super easy class and i had gotten down to the week of finals. I had just "performed" our routine that we had to choreograph for the class...and then went back to my spot and started following our teachers workout. Did i mention that this was the last day of class? ok this was the last day of class. .....Within 10 min of working out i jump wrongly off of our little step benches and land completely sideways on my ankle. I fall to the ground in front of my class of 100 and cannot get up due to the sheer pain (and embarrassment) of the situation. I literally had to crawl to the side of the room and someone then carried me to the kinesiology department where they had ice and a bunch of wraps and such. seriously so embarrassing. At this point i am convinced i broke my ankle because i looked like the elephant man due to the size of my now swollen foot. so i then lay there for a good 20 min...they tie a bag of ice to my foot ...and i end up hobbling to my car and drive to get it x-rayed. Come to find out i didn't break my ankle (praise the lord) but i did in fact tear a ligament and bruised the bone.

Fast forward a year later...and many doctors appts. and physical therapy sessions...the stinkin thing is still not better. therefore I'm getting it fixed. Im looking forward to my ankle not throbbing anymore...but i am really NOT looking forward to being unable to walk on it like a normal person for at least 2 months. Im also sad that i will be semi crippled when Phil comes home. Ugh. BUT i know that this is really the best time to do it, since i will be starting cosmetology school sometime around march. If i don't do it now, there will never be a good time to do it!

So if you guys could, just be praying that everything goes smoothly and that the recovery wouldn't be too difficult!

(did i mention that i was also dressed as someone from the 80's.....just to add to the humiliation)