Bum (or Bummer) Ankle
Mar. 19th, 2011 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI felt perfectly fine this morning. I went for a walk, no problems. I worked on my music some, no problems. I got up from lying on the floor trying to persuade Finale PrintMusic to play through some repeated music (several verses worth) for the mp3 recorder (which I couldn't do--PrintMusic won't play the repeats for some reason and I can't figure out why) and my ankle felt funny. Kind of stiff and hurty.
I figured it was just that I'd held it in a funny position while I was wrestling with PrintMusic and ignored it, except that I put on my boots which should support the ankle better, and went in to work on the canoe. I was planning to do as much carving on the end pieces as my wrists could handle, then put the last four ridge-parts on the forms.
But as I was clamping end pieces to the form and checking with a batten to see how deeply I had to carve, my ankle kept bothering me more and more. Pretty soon I was limping. Then I was limping worse. I ended up giving up well before my wrists gave out, and coming inside to lie down on the couch with my ankle propped up, figuring it would get better soon. Two hours later I asked Kip to bring me some Tylenol and my cane. I've spent the remainder of the day inside, lying down or sitting with my feet up. Kip went out and got me pizza.
I have put in some more time writing music in PrintMusic (but I still haven't solved the playing repeat problem.) I found a note in You Stand Alone that had unaccountably disappeared and forced it to appear again and fixed it and put its lyric and its chord on. I entered music for MayDaye and worked out a jig-ish sort of a thing to go with it.
But I really wanted to work on my BOAT dammit, and I can't do it until I can walk and stand without a cane. And I don't have the faintest idea how I hurt my ankle; it feels positively twisted, but I would have remembered doing that.
I figured it was just that I'd held it in a funny position while I was wrestling with PrintMusic and ignored it, except that I put on my boots which should support the ankle better, and went in to work on the canoe. I was planning to do as much carving on the end pieces as my wrists could handle, then put the last four ridge-parts on the forms.
But as I was clamping end pieces to the form and checking with a batten to see how deeply I had to carve, my ankle kept bothering me more and more. Pretty soon I was limping. Then I was limping worse. I ended up giving up well before my wrists gave out, and coming inside to lie down on the couch with my ankle propped up, figuring it would get better soon. Two hours later I asked Kip to bring me some Tylenol and my cane. I've spent the remainder of the day inside, lying down or sitting with my feet up. Kip went out and got me pizza.
I have put in some more time writing music in PrintMusic (but I still haven't solved the playing repeat problem.) I found a note in You Stand Alone that had unaccountably disappeared and forced it to appear again and fixed it and put its lyric and its chord on. I entered music for MayDaye and worked out a jig-ish sort of a thing to go with it.
But I really wanted to work on my BOAT dammit, and I can't do it until I can walk and stand without a cane. And I don't have the faintest idea how I hurt my ankle; it feels positively twisted, but I would have remembered doing that.
