Winter Pool

Last Tuesday, in my haste to get out the door to avoid being late for an appointment, I tripped over my tripod banging my left leg in two places, and falling hard onto the floor.

At the time, I developed a large bruise in the middle of my shin and a pretty good size purple welt on the leg, just above the ankle.  That was it.

Imagine my surprise when I was undressing last night and saw the inside, rear and a bit of the top  of my foot all extremely bruised.  I have been suffering from edema in my legs and ankles and they have been painful but this explained why I could barely walk by the end of the night.

I didn't know if the bruising on my foot was related to the fall. Those massive bruises really concerned me so I went to the clinic today.  The doctor who I saw days ago for the edema told me that the blood had probably drained down my legs and pooled in my foot. 

I'm a walking bruise machine and this never happened before. Also, the edema in that leg has gotten significantly worse.  So she's ordered a couple of tests to rule out things like blood clots in my legs.  Just a slight chance but since heart failure has just been ruled out (yippee!) she's out of ideas.  Not what you want to hear from a doctor.

I guess I'll suck it up until after the results of these two tests before I do anything like go to the ER.  But if it gets to the point I can't walk at all, I'm calling for an ambulance.

My goal this year was to be more positive and smile more.  So I'm going to have confidence that the swelling is going to go down on its own or my regular doctor with have an epiphany!