My Reason For Not Exercising This Past Week, You Ask?

Right off the bat I will tell you I haven't been exercising for the past week. But I have a reason, at least for not getting on the treadmill.  And this is it:

See that fat Fred Flintstone-like ankle/foot?  Yep, it's mine. Lovely, right?  Here is what it looks like in comparison to the other:

You can actually SEE the ankle bone in my right leg.

An upper view of my log leg.

             

A normal ankle.  (of course, I am hoping they get thinner as time goes by.)

So that's why I haven't been on the treadmill.  Because not only is the ankle swollen as all get out, it hurts too.  I don't know what I did to it except maybe really pushing myself on the treadmill, and I have been trying to hold off going to the doctor until after I get back from California.  But I think today is the day I go because the pain is getting worse and wrapping around my leg, and I am assuming, though I am no doctor, that that isn't a good thing. 

A few years ago, when I was in California, I jumped in the pool with Sean Michael and hit the bottom and twisted (or something) that ankle and it swelled up and was painful.  I eventually went to the doctor (I'm really not very good about going to the doctor at all) and he said I had bursitis in my ankle and then I was given steroids to fix it, which it did.  Since then, I have had it swell on and off,  but it goes away.   This time though it doesn't seem to want to go away and like I said, it hurts when I walk on it, even first thing in the morning when I get up and the swelling is gone.  But once I'm up it doesn't take very long at all to balloon right back up and looking like a tree trunk.

And there you have it.  I know you just really wanted to read all this, not to mention getting to see it too.  On the bright side though, I haven't gained any weight, so I'm still at what I was last week.  And right now I'm not even really trying too hard because of getting so many side tracks, but I figure once I'm home from California and we take Kyla home and get back on a schedule, it will be much more easier for me.  Though I am thinking I am probably going to have to force myself to get up early a couple of times a week to exercise because of taking Sean Michael to TKD.  Oh well, it'll be worth it in the long run, right?