jason21nl goes on the DL (pics of a gross foot and ankle)

[jason21nl]

Playing basketball tonight, I went up for a monster rebound, and tried a put back. I came down on someones ankle and bang..A very bad sprained ankle. So I'll be out for 4-6 weeks and probably the rest of the church basketball season. I'm pretty bummed out, I have never rolled my ankle or had a serious enough injury to miss time off...sucks......so lets hear about some DL stints or season ending injuries that others have had.

 

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[Cooper]

Dude, that looks absolutely painful. I cringe looking at it.

 

I've had a handful of injuries in my life (two reconstructive knee surgeries, goofed up back from a car accident where I ended up in and out of PT for 3 years, broken arm playing kickball, etc.) but the only one that caused everyone around me to start dry heaving on scene was when I managed to dislocate my hip playing football. People said that when I fell (landed on my knees) that my hip just looked like it did something it should have no business doing. They got it back in at the hospital (two doctors basically making their paycheck to pop it into place again.) Thankfully I didn't shatter anything, though. I was basically up and being active a week later.

 

Take it easy, man... If anything, I hope the swelling goes down soon.

[radman12484]

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

That does look brutal and I know the pain of coming down on someone for a monster rebound. Too bad its only 5 inches I get off the ground, but its still huge.

Anyways, get lots of rest and drink you fluids.

[logan82]

I have done that. Jumped for a fotball in gym class and landed with my full weight on my pinkie toe. Rolled my ankle. Make sure you do everything you have to for it to heal or it will never heal properly. My ankle still isn't healed properly 15 years later. Rolls if I step on uneven ground.

[PlayerHader]

That looks nasty. I've seen swollen joints and sprains, but that is crazy. Sure it is only a sprain?

[EsoxLazer]

Yikes man, that looks brutal. I hope you are back up and moving around in a few weeks. Make sure you wear a brace doing anything active, especially bball, from here on out. After spraining my ankles a number of times, Ive learned that they can be more susceptible to rolling/spraining after you've done it before. I'm sure that you already know this, but ice the living heck out of that badboy. I'm on the DL myself here. I went down hard in the driveway last weekend and dislocated/broke my shoulder...who knew that shoveling could be such a dangerous activity? The funny thing is that I had just gotten done skiing and everyone was joking that, with my luck, I was gonna break my neck since it was only my first time skiing since moving out to Colorado. Also did some ligament damage(doc thinks I tore my cuff and labrum) and I won't know the extent of that damage until I get the results back from my MRI. Hope you heal up quick. Get a bunch of movies and video games for your time on the couch.

[DHonks]

reminds me of my college roomy. He kept re-injuring it then. Be careful. let it heal properly. And I'm sure, like my buddy, you'd have been better off breaking it.

[iluvlamp]

Been there and did that. Had to drive home from the game with my left foot. That sucked. Had a bruise along the bottom of my foot for 2 months. Ice...Heat...rest...painkillers...Good luck brother!

[Baldkin]

RICE.

 

Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation

 

Soaking or using a heat pad on occasion too.

Get yourself a brace, and as soon as you can, start doing the alphabet with your toes (draw an A in the air, then a B, then a C), its great PT, and if you let your body heal without doing the PT, you'll just have a weak ankle that you'll resprain much easier.

[trwi7]

Awesome injury Jason. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

I've only had a couple. Bike ran over my foot and ripped off my toenail and a big cut from my knee down to my shin playing football.

[DSFastball55]

Separated left shoulder 4 times, right one 2 times, plus a stinger all playing middle linebacker in high school, but I like to think I delivered more than that to my opponents.

[don1481]

That looks awesome! Definitely take the RICE approach listed above.

 

You'll be back better than ever for next season's basketball league.

[Fatter than Joey]

My worse injury (which I have shared on this board) happened on the golf course, when I got my foot tangled in barbed wire, fell and crashed through a hornet's nest -- talk about some wacky swelling -- but I healed quick.

[jlau20]

I got hit in the head with a baseball bat by my cousin when I was younger, I'll spare you the pictures.

[trwi7]

I got hit in the head with a baseball bat by my cousin when I was younger, I'll spare you the pictures.

 

If there are pictures I'd kind of like to see them. Does that make me a bad person?

[pogokat]

got my foot caught in the seatbelt of a go cart...got dragged about 25feet down an asphalt road in shorts and a t shirt...d'oh.

[ccbrew]

So I'll be out for 4-6 weeks and probably the rest of the church basketball season. I'm pretty bummed out.

Keep your head up, soldier. Let me introduce you to a friend of mine that'll help you out..

 

 

 

Months later..

 

"It was only one day out of my long basketball career. I didn't do it to gain an edge; all I wanted to do was heal so I could get back to my teammates and fans in the Church Basketball League as quickly as possible." - Jason21nl

 

[sbrylski]

Show of hands - How many of you have broken a bone, but the first thing out of your mouth after was: "I'm fine"?

 

I crossed my arms right after, thinking it wasn't bad - just the standard ouch and hold. Someone asked if I was alright, I said yeah. About a minute later, as the pain set in (which wasn't nearly as bad as I would have expected - but definitely still hurt), I uncrossed my arms and looked - halfway down my right arm it suddenly shifted to the side about 3 inches. "I think there's something wrong with my arm," I said.

[jason21nl]

since this is the first time me rolling an ankle, I thank you all for the advice. It pretty much woke me up every time I turned last night. The swelling went down considerably but the pain has also gone up ton. I'm sure thats normal too. Instead of pain on just one side of the foot, both ankles now hurt.

 

as far as people saying its an awesome injury, no doubt! the thing looks so gross, but yet so cool. However, I could do without it.

[Hammer]

Wow, nasty stuff man! I have one that may rival this. I was playing basketball at a place that had carpeted floors (not bright...I know). I went up for a rebound tried to pivot right as I came down. SNAP...echo...echo...echo. I tore my ACL and my knee hit the floor while my foot was still planted and trying to pivot. That was in 1995 so I don't have a digital photo but look at your knee and try to squeeze a nerf football under the skin on the inside of the knee and that is what I had. The swelling rubbed against my other knee when I limped. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif That echo is still stuck im my mind though...

Good luck with the rehab...and yes, I can vouch for the RICE and the ABC's as well...

[bball123h2]

Show of hands - How many of you have broken a bone, but the first thing out of your mouth after was: "I'm fine"?

*raises hand*

 

I have broken my right thumb three times, all while playing baseball. I tried to play it off every time. The first time, , when I was 10, I dove for a ball during warmups and bent my thumb a direction it isn't meant to bend. I attempted to pretend nothing happened, but my coach thought it odd that I had suddenly become a left-handed Jim Abbott, despite having two hands. Apparently gameday is not the time to become ambidextrous.

 

Heal fast Jason!

[radman12484]

Show of hands - How many of you have broken a bone, but the first thing out of your mouth after was: "I'm fine"?

I've broken both of my wrist (not at the same time). Completely destoryed my leg during hitting practice in high school (yes hitting practice, don't ask me how). Dislocated my other knee. Broke my toe. Broke my collar bone. I think maybe I should just wrap myself in a big Ace bandage.

[flosses like fossas]

Show of hands - How many of you have broken a bone, but the first thing out of your mouth after was: "I'm fine"?

 

I crossed my arms right after, thinking it wasn't bad - just the standard ouch and hold. Someone asked if I was alright, I said yeah. About a minute later, as the pain set in (which wasn't nearly as bad as I would have expected - but definitely still hurt), I uncrossed my arms and looked - halfway down my right arm it suddenly shifted to the side about 3 inches. "I think there's something wrong with my arm," I said.

guilty. i was fine when i broke my nose, fine when i did pretty much that exact thing up there to my ankle, fine when i broke my arm and later my wrist, fine when i got hit by a car on a run and fine when i got hit by a car on my bike. i was also fine when i unsuccessfully tried to break a beer bottle on my head, which is why you shouldn't drink too many cans of beast ice while you watch jack@$!. that one's on tape.

 

[stoops17]

broken bone? no

 

but I did concuss myself in 3rd grade with a nosedive off the top of a tornado slide and landed forehead first on an ice-covered rock. I remembered flashes of being carried by a teacher, then in the ambulance, then 2 days later in the hospital, still have the scar & bump on forehead and I have diminished hearing in the ear that had a lot of blood in it. To this day I swear I wasn't ready to sit and slide and the jerk behind me pushed me, no one believes me

 

apparently when the paramedics in the ambulance were asking me questions, George Washington was president and Superman was his vice-president

[burniebrewer]

My best foot injury occurred in my teens. We were at a friends house and had just been swimming, so I had no shoes on. I had gone into the house for a drink and my sister did something to piss me off. She takes off running with me in hot pursuit. We get to the front screen door (the big wooden door is open) and I catch the wooden door with my right toes--toe #4 to the left of the door, pinky toe to the right of the door. Basically, my toes made a "v" around the door. My pinky toe was now doing a 90 degree right turn as I hopped around the hot driveway like a madman.

 

It was broken and all the doctor could do was tug on it and say "there's nothing I can really do for this." Uh, thanks.