Last Saturday I went for my daily bike ride. Every day I ride a half a mile on my bicycle. Normally it doesn’t tire me too much, but on Saturday I started later than usual, so I was thrown off. Quite literally thrown off.

I had pulled over onto some gravel to let a car pass by, and when I tried to shift gears, the wheels got stuck in the gravel. I was thrown off my bike, and the bike fell over onto my legs. I sat there on the gravel for a few seconds before collapsing.

When I regained consciousness, I tried to stand up. But I couldn’t. My left foot and ankle couldn’t move. I could barely feel them, but what I could feel was nothing less than agony. I started to panic. My ankle couldn’t be broken. No. That couldn’t happen.

I sat there for a few more minutes, looking at my foot. The outer side of it had swollen to the size of a tennis ball, and the entire thing was blue. I couldn’t move my toes, and I was half a mile from home with no phone and barely any money. In short, I was screwed.

I couldn’t stand and I couldn’t call anybody to have them pick me up. After an hour or so, a car stopped and the driver offered me a ride. I took it, not caring about the “don’t trust strangers” rule. When I arrived back home, I crawled up the stairs and through the front door.

My parents just looked at me. I knew that I wasn’t going to get any cooperation out of them, so I was on my own. I tried to stand. I found that I could hop, but I couldn’t put any pressure on my left foot. I hopped to the bathroom to get an ice pack and a stretchy wrap, and then went to bed.

I stayed in bed for the rest of the weekend. By Tuesday I could walk somewhat, so I went to school with one tennis shoe-d foot and one stretchy-wrapped foot.

Now it is Thursday. I’ve been made fun of numerous times, and I still don’t know exactly what is wrong with my foot. It sucks.

Also, my hostess Renee got a new domain, so I’m there now. See? Hopefully everybody can find me again. I’m not sure how to go about telling everybody.

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