Fred Flintsone Leg

I stayed up last night until 5am working on stuff. I worked on my store for this site, I printed up some zines, and I made stabs at getting my downstairs 'office' organized. My legs tend to fall asleep when I sit for long periods so I made sure to get up and walk around for a few minutes every hour. I noticed my feet tingling a little but when I stamped my feet it went away so I didn't pay it too much attention.

When I started to go up to bed, I looked down and noticed that my right ankle had swollen! A lot! I was all, what the hell?! I looked like I had the leg of a caveman, you know, Fred Flintsone Leg.

I looked like I had no ankle at all, just a leg that ended in a stumpy foot. It freaked me out, because the last time my ankles became swollen like this was in 2002 when I got really sick. The last time before that was in 1994 when I was pregnant with Scott and didn't know it. Well, I'm not pregnant now, I know for a fact, and I just saw the doctor 2 weeks ago. I decided to take a bath. After my bath I went to sleep, propping my leg on 3 pillows. I started to wake Brian up to show him how gross my ankle looked but didn't. My digital camera is not working so I started to go wake up Iyende so I could use hers, but then I fell asleep. I wanted a picture! I woke up around 11 and my ankle was less swollen, though still puffy and tender.

Brian got up with the kids and went grocery shopping. As I'm writing this the boys are jumping around laughing at what I'm writing, and Iyende is hovering in the background talking on the phone with a friend. Occasionally she tells me not to close out any of the Linkin Park related windows she has open. I've got out the Icy Pak to put on my ankle and I'm going back to bed.