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My Broken Ankle Journey - A Recovery Timeline

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 Day 1: OMG!! I Fell and Broke My Ankle! You never know what's coming. Your life can completely change in a second and that happened to me on June 4, 2022. I was playing a fun doubles tennis match. I wasn't chasing down some great shot at a full run. Nope! I was just moving to hit a garden-variety backhand. My legs somehow got tangled and I fell in slow motion. My body crumpled down onto my left leg and the next thing I know I am looking at a very seriously dislocated foot. My leg was pointing straight forward and my foot was facing the opposite direction. I wasn't actually thinking at all at this point. My brain was acting all on its own. My brain looked at that foot and said, "This is so wrong! I must fix it immediately!" So, what did my brain do? It decided to push the dislocation back into place. The foot was probably dislocated for 4-5 seconds before I pushed it back into place. When I tell this story, everyone thinks it was such a badass thig to do. It wasn&