Woohoo! Sprained my foot again. :/

Yep, sprained again. I'm so gonna sell that bed. Stupid Oak Trees...

You sprained your foot in bed? Talk about an active sex life!

haha, that would be cool.

No, I hit the side of my bed with my foot

Nick,

They make these things called "nightlights".....

In the meantime, put your keyboard in your lap and your foot up on the computer table with a bag of frozen peas on it.

lol

Heh, I've sprained my ankles time and time again. Once, I managed to have TWO sprained ankles at the same time.
Spraining one first, and then walking on one foot only, with the aid of crutches, put too much stress on the good foot and it too went kaput. Not a good experience to be lying on the sidewalk, unable to get up, and having to rely on a good samaritan to help me up and lend me his cell phone to call my mom.
I have very weak joints fer some reason. My left wrist pops in and out of its place allll the time.

It could be worse.

The roommate I had a while back used to sprain his ankle all the time. He's a really big guy (like 6'6" and well over 250) and played volleyball a lot.

One night, he didn't come home from volleyball.

I became more and more worried. Finally, I got a call from a mutual friend of ours who was at the hospital with my roommate.

I got the gory details WARNING - not for the squeamish. Stop reading now.

It seems he was playing volleyball, jumped up and came down on the side of his foot. His ankle dislocated (I didn't know they could do that) and his leg bone shot out the side of his foot. He later recalled the end of his bone bouncing on the gym floor a couple of times as he tried to catch himself.

Surprisingly, especially to the doctors, he didn't break a single bone. He had had a compound dislocation. A couple of people at the scene passed out. My roommate is an amazingly tough person and only cried out a couple of times as people tried to help remove his shoe, which was bunched up on the side of his leg along with his foot. I imagine a banana as it is starting to be pealed.

Anyway, sorry for the gross out ;P You were warned.

From what the physical therapist later said, years of spraining his ankle had stretched the muscular cuff that holds your ankle in place, causing it to be 'loose'.

I had trouble just walking up and down stairs for awhile after hearing about this.

OK - as we're having gross tales, this is a true one that still gives me the shudders today.

There is a small airfield not far from me. One day one of the people who work there accidentally walked onto an aerial (antenna) that was projecting from a plane. Unfortunately the aerial went up his nose, and caused a great deal of pain.

There wasn't much blood, but the pain remained for the rest of the day. Also he noticed that his nose was running, and couldn't seem to stop it. After he had soaked several handkerchiefs, he decided it was about time he went to see his GP, just in case he had done some damage.

The GP sent him straight to hospital, where it transpired that he had actually fractured his skull behind his nose. What was running out of his nose was actually cerebro-spinal fluid, and he was told that a couple more hours without treatment would have killed him.

I'm not making any claims about medical or other veracity; this is the tale as it was told to me.

If you ever walk near an aeroplane make sure you are holding your nose tightly!