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Thanks guys. 3nodding

...and yea, should be around a little more for a while. smile

You probably just stepped funny and twisted it or sprained it. Neither of which would require medical attention since there'd be nothing they could offer you. If you're getting discoloration or swelling then elevate it and ice it. Keep off it as much as you can if it's still hurting.
I sprained my ankle really REALLY bad once when I was a kid; it doubled in size, turned an awful purple, and I couldn't walk on it for what seemed like forever. Took months to heal all the way, partially because I managed to twist the same damn ankle before it was done healing. Still have problems with it to this day. So, yeah...be really careful not to re-twist it. sweatdrop

How so? It's relaxing, it helps keep the stress levels down, it calms me enough to go online and deal with people wink and it sooths both mental and physical pain. I think it's a wonder drug. 3nodding

I know all about dependency, I was addicted to Morphine for several years. I used and abused it, and despite it, the pain I was initially taking it for never went away fully, and I gave myself a mess of memory and mental issues and such as well due to killing off a slew of brain cells.

It's part of the reason I'm more reclusive anymore, especially online, because it's embarrassing to have someone start chatting with you and wanting to catch up because they haven't seen you around in years... but you have no idea who they are, or any memory of having met them before. It's not always that bad, but I do have huge gaps where I can't remember anything.
Heck, I didn't know I had ever flown (assisted) a small private plane up in New Hampshire when I was a teen until I happened upon some photos that were taken of me in mid flight, and that was just a few months ago that I found them and was able to recover part of the memory of doing so and then asked for more details from others who were there at the time. Had you asked me six months ago if I'd ever been in a small private plane (not the big commercial ones) I'd have told you No, because as far as I knew I never had. That's just one such example.

So yea, I know a little about dependency (at least what wasn't stored in the brain cells I fried) but Alcohol has always been something very helpful to me, that I've never managed to form a dependency upon. I started drinking about fifteen years ago, off and on, sometimes heavily for months on end only to stop and go weeks or months before picking it back up again for anywhere from a few days to a week, then off again. Guess I'm lucky. I can casually drink on occasion or drink obsessively for months and still quit at any time. In the past few years that Sabby and I have been together I've only drank on occasion or to kill a bad headache, but nothing like I used to. Then again, despite being drunk to the point of passing out before, I've never had a hangover either, so ya me. At least alcohol can't get me down. wink

Wow, that was ranty and venty... sorry about that, didn't intend it to be and not annoyed with you for bringing it up or anything, I guess it just gave me an opening and it all poured out. I thank you for your concern, but given the hell I've been through and the shape my head is already in, alcohol is the least of my problems. rofl

No need to apologize for venting. 3nodding I just worry a lot because I've seen what dependence and abuse can do to people. Hell, my own father tried to sell me for booze when I was about two. Anyway, I'm sure I don't need to go into a rant about all the negative effects of alcohol, but I will still say that I think just trying to keep busy will be more effective in the long run than self-medicating by drinking.

No swelling I can detect, and certainly no bruising, but it just hurts whenever I walk a certain way...

I wish I could stay off it, but college tends to make me walk all over the place....ah well. So far I just take Motrin for the pain and it seems to do all right...

eek Damn her. xp