that's what you get for showing off

ok, I have not updated in forever but I feel the need to do so today. Over the weekend I went swimming at the creek, my first time in 2 years, and ended up not being able to walk. Let me elaborate.

I am a member of the Flickr group Self Portrait Challenge and this months theme is childhood. I got the brilliant idea to take a shot of me at the creek since that's where I spent a large chunk of my childhood summer days. I had visions of me getting the perfect shot as I jumped off the big rock where we used to swim and visions of me jumping gracefully into the water to get that perfect shot. Two things....I haven't been swimming in the aforementioned 2 years, and I am not graceful.

My first set of pics was all me standing on the rock because I waited too long to jump. The second and third set was...wrong. So I decided to get creative and go up higher to get a different angle. The water was up because of the rain and it was a little murky. I had forgot that in the particular spot where I was aiming to jump the water was shallower so as I jumped I was not expecting to hit solid rock. But I did. My left foot hit the rock and my right butt cheek followed. I just thought, dang I'm gonna have a bruise on my butt. Oh I was so wrong. My foot hurt a little but I just figured it would go away but as the day grew to a close I could not put any pressure at all on my heel. It hurt super bad.

So I figured it wasn't broken since I could sit on it and it didn't hurt. Only when I tried to walk. The first dr i went to basically told me, hey you have a bone spur and you hit it. Here's some medicine and wear tennis shoes. Wow. Really? I didn't know that. I wasted $100 for her to tell me something I already knew.

The second dr I went to (yes, ok? i was desperate and in pain) told me I had a tiny hairline fracture on the bottom of my heel and to wear a boot cast for 6 weeks and it might get better by then. Well, at least he told me something I can understand.

So now with 2 totally different opinions I still can't walk and the people at work are mad at me for making them come in on their day off. Can I help it if I can't walk? If I had a desk job it wouldn't be so bad but chasing after kids all day you kinda need all you limbs to work.

In any case, that's my update. If I can get myself together I'll try very hard to update more often. Those of you that know me and bother to read this are laughing right now.