A few weeks ago I got to travel to the lovely shores of Sarasota, and in the process managed to sprain my ankle pretty bad. My dad had just emailed me to ask if I would be able to meet him out in Colorado this year and go skiing, and from the current condition of my ankle it appears I will not be able to do so. He then asked me how I managed to sprain my ankle, so I had to tell him the story. Then I thought- HEY! - why not let the entire World Wide Web read the story TOO! What a great idea!
So here it is...
(ahem)......I had inadvertently lost Ry during a Friday night drinking binge off Siesta Key near where we were staying in Sarasota and didn't have my phone with me, although for some reason I had the battery to Rys phone in my pocket. After wandering around the key trying to get back to the mainland I stumbled in to a swamp/forest like area hoping to find a main road to hail a cab. I finally found a fence which appeared to border civilization. As I stumbled towards it, one of the local alligators in the swamp/forest area took offense to me wandering through his neck of the woods and decided to chase me. I ran away and managed to twist my ankle pretty bad in the process when I stepped in some sort of hole. I flung myself through an opening in the fence, and ended up in some high price condo complex, complete with a pond and bridge spanning the width of said pond. I attempted to curl up and sleep in the middle of the bridge on a little gazebo type area, but was promptly noticed by the local security who then escorted me out of said complex. I finally limped to a main road and hailed a cab. I couldn't remember the name of Rys parents subdivision in the drunken haze I was in, so I decided to get a cheap hotel and figure it out in the morning. The next day I remembered the name of the subdivision and cabbed it back there. Spent the rest of the weekend hobbling around Sarasota. Had it X-rayed when I got home, and got the following response from the doc- "the good news is its not broken, the bad news is it would have healed faster if you broke it." Yay! I haven't been able to do much on it for the last three weeks or so but its getting better.
One for the books.......and note to self: Don't wander through swamp/forest like areas around the keys in Sarasota-these guys don't play...
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