Dont waste life playing, its over soon enough!

Kimmi · 06-09-2008, 13:51

Dont know where to start... but since Im gonna have alot of spare time I just felt like telling my story, what happend this weekend and kinda changed my life.

Beeing obsessively addicted to PE for 3years I finally broke loose now and stoped playing and started doing other stuff. Training, getting a job after student life etc... and life was gonna be cool.

This saturday I accedently steped over while jogging slow and injured my ankle. I cut of my "ledd bånd" and got some loose splints on a bone on the top of my foot.

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This is my leg now

So now Im looking at a long time of physiotherapy to trainn up my mucle in the foot, to compensate for broken "ledd bånd".
Doctor told me it would never be good again, so training everyday is my life for a while now.. if not ever, dont really know...

Anyone know what "ledd bånd" is in english ?

SD Farmer · 06-09-2008, 13:57

Kimmi, your foot looks awful! Sorry to hear about your accident. Hopefully over time you'll be able to use the foot normally.

Regarding what ledd bånd means... litterally joint leash. but maybe it means liagment or tendon? Am I close?

Slick · 06-09-2008, 13:58

ligament – ligament, (ledd)bånd / ligament, ledd(band)

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Kimmi, last Sunday I stepped on a long nail, went right through my foot

I understand your pain

Good luck on your recovery!

http://jointhealing.com/pages/foot/foot_anatomy.html

This website says the ATFL ligament is the most common torn in a ankle sprain...Kimmi, is that the one?

Paralyser · 06-09-2008, 14:02

Ouch! That sucks.

I tried to find out what "ledband" is in english but only found words that I'm not so sure even exists.

Achilles' tendon = Hälsena (Not sure that's one you busted)

Leading-String (Sound like they just translated it word by word)

Those words are translated from from swedish into english by Tyda.se

I hope you get well soon!

dj. · 06-09-2008, 14:04

My ankle looked like that recently too, FROM sitting at my pc too long

I hadnt realised my entire leg had gone to sleep, so when I got up from my chair, I just collapsed to the floor.

Hurt like hell, even so, while wailing and crying, and on my knee's, I still rememberd my manners, and typed 'Good Night' to people LOL

Been weeks now, still cant ride my horses properly

Hope you recover soon!

Dergin Skellig · 06-09-2008, 14:10

Ouch mate, sorry to hear about your injury. It looks pretty rough and swollen still.

I agree that people shouldn't make these video games their whole life, one needs to be in control of themself and decide how much to play, and if in excess what is it at the expense of? Family time? Training time? Learning time? These aren't replaced by EU.

But everyone needs time to unwind, whether it be to some of your favorite music, a great dinner you enjoy, or even just a nice night alone with the significant other in your life. Other times its nice to unwind with a couple hous of EU now and then.

I find it a lot more rewarding to log in sporadically, just to say hi to the soc and blast a couple armax horns off some bulls, than it was to fanatically and frenetically log in till you sleep then log in upon waking, and cursing the development team for fixing/patching when it wasnt convenient for me.

Enough goes on in life without people creating artifical stress over pennies in a video game. If its stressful or consuming to play, and you couldnt imagine a break from EU, then thats when you most need that break. It really comes down to asking yourself seriously "Is it worth it?" when it comes to stressing or fixating on a game, or any other activity for that matter.

So get well mate, I've had a similar injury in my right side ankle in my teenage years and it was about 8 weeks till I could say I was 100%. Finally got my homework done in that time anyway lol.

Shee · 06-09-2008, 14:15

ouch, this looks very painfull. best wishes and may it heal fast! and never trust a doctor, if you train your muscles maybe it will be good in the near future!