I want to play football again...but...

[Amphrax]

Just wondering what you thought about this...

I tell ya a little story before I get to the point, hehe...

When I was at college I tried to be clever by jumping some wooden stairs that were facing down.

I took a long run up to these stairs but I kinda jumped abit early and miss timed my landing and got my right foot caught on the middle of the last 2 steps.

My ankle then went 90 degrees and SNAPPED. So after realising my ankle snapping I hobbled into the tutors office and she told me to get out coz she was with someone.

Because of this I never went to the hospital to get it fixed. After a couple weeks my ankle felt fine so I started to play football again but as i was running around my ankle went again after a small ditch in the ground and again my ankle went 90 degrees... by god that hurt...I stopped playing for abit realising my ankle wasn't right. 2 months later I went back to play football again thinking my ankle was ok. I played for 30 mins and thought cool my ankle is ok and then after a short time my ankle went 90 degrees again and this seriously hurt like hell.

I then thought ok i better goto the hospital to get it checked out. They took an X-ray and showed me that the bone were healed wrongly (so the bones were kinda together but over lapping each other) so its still weak and in order to fix it they needed to break it again. They said that I wasn't allowed to play football again because of this and I havn't played since.

I thought noway im doing that.

But now after 13 odd years I'm still suffering because I cant drive for more than 1 hour because my ankle aches and im scared that if i play football again my ankle might go again.

I'm currently 33 and I been trying to get fit again and my mates asking me to play football with them. But they dont know the problem I got and I dont like letting them down.

So the question is... forget playing football... or get my ankle snapped again so the hospital can fix it right...

Any suggestions would be good... As I'm really thinking... NOWAY coz the snapping of my ankle bones just brings back the painful memory of it actually happening the first time.

Even now talking about it I'm cringing and holding my ankle.

 

[Ch3tan]

I have to ask; why did you simply not let the doctors fix it the first time you saw them?

You may have been unable to play for a few months, but better than years of issues after.

Get it fixed, as you get older having a weak ankle will not be good for you.

 

[Amphrax]

When they told me that they have to break it again... I thought no thanks... just the thought of the SNAP put me off again... and not realising the problems I caused when I was young... plus they did say I wasn't allowed to play football unless I got it fixed because of the amount of damage I caused after the breakage the first time.

Also me being young and not taking advice I thought I knew best... but obviously I didn't, hehe

1 of the things I wish I fixed when I was young but you dont tend to think about it when your younger

 

[georgie]

Well, when you're sixty you'll look back and think "I wish I fixed when I was young" (33).

Up to you though really.

 

[Corran]

be worse to snap it now because after all these years the bones be more set into the position they settled into. lets just say you are going to be in a lot of pain for sometime if they fix it.

however if they dont fix it now you probably be cripple in old age as the bones will weaken there early and it will go again and may not reheal

 

[Marc]

Forget your bones, if you are being correct that your foot keeps going "90 degrees" at the first sign of stress, then I hate to say it, but unlucky, your ligaments are fucked and fucked for life. Should have got it seen to in the first place. Resetting your bone wont help with this and you will always have shit for ligaments in your ankles.

 

[Ch3tan]

But better to get medical advice on all this than trust us hacks?

I do wonder sometimes at the questions that get asked on internet forums

 

[Marc]

But better to get medical advice on all this than trust us hacks?

I do wonder sometimes at the questions that get asked on internet forums

Offtopic is obviously the first port of call for any problem

 

[Ch3tan]

True, but only if you use it as a a place to get suggestions of what NOT to do

 

[Lethul]

I seriously don't understand why you didn't do anything about it the first time you broke it? Or even the first time you went to the hospital?

 

[sayward]

Go back to the docs, maybe after all this time they'll be able to suggest something different as it may be too late to re break it.

 

[tris-]

I would suggest the application of 10 ice lolly sticks in a circular arrangement around the ankle, secured with ductape.

Should be ready to play instantly.

 

[Zenith]

*sigh*

Doctors actually have a lot of knowledge about these things. Not listening to them is your second misstake, the first being jumping these stairs