Weak Ankles for Life.

So I finally got to get my feet checked out at this special clinic where they check feet! The doctor's called a podiatrist which is basically someone who studies feet and specialises in them. ( Yes! that includes flat foots, bow foots, and high arched feet).

It's kind of sad actually.. For those of you who are not so aware of my situation, I have sprained my ankles about 5 times or so in the past 2 or 3 years. Everytime netball season comes, I sprain my foot at least once. I can even sprain it while walking around in sports shoes. =/ it's become such a habit that my sprained ankles heal at the speed of lightning too to compensate for the amount of times i've sprained it.

Anywho, the secretary at the clinic was soo nice. she was actually bubbly and happy and she seemed to actually like her life! I mean come on, how many secretaries/nurses have you seen behind a desk who actually look like they like their job?? She was all polite and curteous while answering calls and even refered to me by my name! Who wouldn't want to come back to a happy clinic like that?!

So they made me walk on this treadmill without any shoes for a while while they videotaped it from the back. then the doctor called me in and asked me to walk back and forth to the door and back. Then he checked my feet and concluded that my arch was too high and that had contributed to all the times I sprained my ankle. I think he knew something was wrong when when he rotated my ankles he could hear and feel clicking noises. super scary cause i don't want to ever end up in a wheel chair ever! So the story is that when i walk, my feet collapse inwards a bit so as to cause my ankle to be weirdly angled.. Any sudden movements and my ankle goes crack! and I sprain my ankle again. rooaar.

What I'm really worried about now though (for vain reasons) is the shoes i cannot wear! Like how I'm incredibly sure my mum will insist I wear sports shoes as much as I can now. aagh. I practically live in my wedges because well, my calves are like huge. grr.

that very same day I got my first ever x-ray done! and i kept thinking about all the little sparks of radiation going through my body and killing at least a few hundred body cells. Science has never made me look at things the same way again. =(

Anyways, here is something that will cheer you up!