Confession of a roller derby girl

Hello, my derby name is Elle Smackpherson. This a blog for me to post anything related to Roller Derby. Rants, pictures, everything skating/derby.

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So a week ago i had surgery to get the plate and screws taken out of my ankle and today is the first day I’ve been left to my own devices! The first few days boy was amazing and took care of me! (Including helping me walk to the toilet and sponge bathing me cos our shower sucks) Yesterday he went back to work and my grandma came to help me out and i put away the dishes and prepared breakfast and lunch and walked outside to the car! I thought that was damn good! Now today I’m all alone (bar ½ hour when boy came home for lunch) and I’ve msde breakfast, lunch, showered myself and walked outside to the mail box!! Small steps but I’m getting there! Later I’ve got to prepare dinner for game of thrones night and wash up the dishes. It doesnt sound like much but to go from 2 panadeine Forte every 6 hours and still being in agony to no drugs and taking care of myself in a week, thats huge! I also dont have the pain i had with the plates in my ankle, I’ve prodded it as much as i can with the stupid bandage and it feels good! Can’t wait to get the stitches out and get back to life! :D

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I broke my ankle in September 2014, now I've just had the hardware removed and i feel great! Hopefully this'll continue in an upward direction and i can fully get back into roller derby. It ultimately is my goal to be doing something that makes me happy! I can't wait to get back to a point where i can skate a whole session again :)

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So I’m pretty drugged up curled up in bed with boy being an worse than an overbearing mother. Today i had the plates taken out of ankle! Im pretty happy about it but also fairly sore. Hopefully the pain dies down and i feel more human.

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Sent an email through to my freshmeat coordinator. Hopefully I'll go through freseat again and get back into it. I want to be skating again!

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I should post an update on my ankle. GRDL have got a 'tendermeat' program at the moment for injured skaters returning to derby, so I've done 2 sessions of that and my ankle has held up fine! It can only get better for here on in :)

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Roller derby sketches.

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Xrays! The right picture was the night I broke it (exactly 6 weeks ago tonight), and the left is today! The doctor was happy with how I'm healing up. Stupid freaking xray tech though! "Do you know there's a plate in your ankle?" No way! I wouldn't have guessed it. Freaking idiot.

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Finally after 6 weeks in two different casts, I’m able to walk!! Very slowly with crutches but it’s still walking! It feels bizarre to put pressure on my foot, but no pain which is awesome!

I got news last night that my silly little brother had broken and dislocated both bones in his wrist. So he’ll be in hospital till tomorrow waiting to see what happens. My mother is freaking out because everyone is saying bad things happen in 3’s. Lets hope @musical7jojo isn’t next!

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Woohoo! Finally out of casts! 6 weeks walking only, no running, jumping or twisting and 3 months no contact sport. So no derby for 3 months. At least I can walk and nso :)

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Check it out!! The scar from my operation and my new full cast. I also saw the xray, it's awesome! I did a good job. They said it'd broken in a few places so I have a screw in my bone to hold the pieces together and a plate on the outside with another 4 screws. Only 3 more weeks though! And the doctor said in the last few days I can walk on the cast to get used to walking again! I'm so freaking excited, hopefully the time will fly by!

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I had surgery on my ankle on Friday afternoon to get a plate put into my bone, and got released Saturday midday :)

I’ve got 2 weeks in a half cast, then 4 weeks in a full cast then hopefully I’ll be able to walk again!

I’m so keen to walk and skate again!

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Sooo, some idiot fell down at training tonight (or rather yesterday night, it’s currently 2am) and managed to break my ankle! Stupid part was that I was standing still!!! I lost balance and tried to fall on my knees, managed to stand on my toe stop then heard a pop and called an ambulance.

All I know is that it’s a fracture, and the bone moved. They’ll leave it overnight and possibly operate in the morning to put a plate in to hold the bone together.

Yay for roller derby!

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So Elle has decided to make the move into reffing. It'll be less stress on me. :) Hopefully I can be seen as impartial with my tattoo :P

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Post derby and Australia Day fireworks with the derby girls. Feeling pretty good right now :)

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Got my action shot photo back.  I think it looks pretty cool.

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@PeoriaPush skater #GingyNinja at the skatepark

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