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06.16.17. // Banana slug. Sweet boy. He could sense me by light and smell. They can get really big.

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06.16.17. // The day we went hiking in Carkeek Park and I sprained my ankle. This was about 10 minutes before that happened!

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Trev and I went hiking at Carkeek after he got off from work yesterday. It was still kinda wet through there, and as I was stepping over a big log my foot slipped and twisted inwards as I fell. I managed to kind of correct my foot’s angle, so I think I avoided breaking anything by doing that, but could have easily hurt my wrist by doing that (thankfully didn’t because it also slipped and didn’t take a straight hit when I fell). Have a big bruise and scrape on my thigh where I landed on a broken branch, but otherwise the only thing hurt is my ankle. It hurt reeally bad at first but then not at all after a few minutes. And now it only hurts if I move my foot in the direction that it turned (inwards to the left) but otherwise it’s fine. I can walk fine and everything. So Idk! I haven’t gone to a doctor or anything but Trev’s mom who used to be a nurse told me to ice it every 30 minutes and keep it elevated... So far I’ve mostly been walking around on it yesterday and today which probably wasn’t smart. But I’ll try to stay off it... Really hope I didn’t tear anything. She said I might have torn my cartilage (since I heard a pop when it twisted) which could require surgery!! :(( I really hope it’s just bruised... Right now it’s barely swollen and has no visual bruising, but it hurts a little if I press on it. :S Fucking annoying that I even did that, should have been being more careful with how I stepped but of course I was more concerned with holding my camera bag so it wouldn’t hit anything as we hiked than keeping my arms out for balance. Blaaah. Just what I need! This kind of stuff scares me because people always say you’ll know if you broke something, and I’m sure that’s right for an ankle injury especially, but my dad broke his wrist once and didn’t realize it was broken for months and eventually the BONE DIED and he had to get surgeries on it and it’s messed up his arm forever. I think that injury might have even been why he was discharged from the marines, I can’t remember if it was that or another arm injury.