brief update for those bored enough to read. last week when i went to my doc for a follow up i found out that his partner is a sports medicine guru who consults for the phoenix suns and worked his way through med school as their physical therapist.
until i met him i was still on crutches as my ankle couldn't support any weight. he came in and spent a good half hour/ 45 minutes messing around with my ankle pushing, pulling, made it pop again, etc. he told me no more crutches, take a lot of advil and he designed a recovery program for me. the next morning i woke up and my entire foot was shades of black and blue - BUT i could move it. it hurt but i could also walk on it without limping.
not too bad considering i'd dislocated it 4 days before.
last night i went for my first real run on it. i ran intervals so i walked 2 minutes, jogged, 2 minutes, flat out run for one minute for half an hour. WOOHOO! my ankle held together! i went straight to the ice pack to limit the swelling and it did the trick. my goal is to play the next game which is a week from this friday. i will continue interval training this week and start working on my cuts and ball handling on saturday. i have hope that i'll actually make it back in this season.
