Ankle update

My "weak ankle"? Yeah, it's a broken ankle. XD Whoops. The doctor took some X-rays of both my ankle and my hip (since I walk with one leg towards the side, they wanted to make sure it wasn't something that started up in the hip.) The hip looks fine, but in my ankle, I have a piece of bone that's floating free. The pain that I'm feeling is the muscle getting squished between the two bones, and occasionally the bone hitting against the other one. She thinks I did it when I was younger (it's definitely not new.)

I seriously couldn't be happier.

1. They can fix it non-surgically. I have to start taking Aleve twice a day for a little while to help with pain and inflammation. Next Monday, I start physical therapy. I also have an ankle brace to help with skating or any other form of exercise.

2. It's not all in my head! A part of me was always afraid that I was making up the pain, that nothing's wrong with me and I'm just trying to make an excuse for why I was having such a hard time with skating. This takes a load off.