It’s exactly a week since Sherilyn fell into a concealed hole on the ground at a park while doing an architectural site analysis of the park located near her college. The lateral ankle sprain that she sustained was pretty bad. The entire left foot was so swollen that it looked like a balloon filled to the brim with water and about to explode. She had to take medicines to reduce the swelling and inflammation for a week.
But nothing will stop this gung-ho girl from moving about. The next day, despite my advice against her attending a music fest in her college, she still went – hobbling while holding on to a pair of crutches. One foot had sneakers on and the other had slipper.
And the following Monday, Sherilyn went to college. I was very worried about how she’d get up and down the stairs with a laptop in her backpack on her back while hobbling with crutches. But she managed to do it, albeit with a lot of difficulties. When she came home, she told me that she couldn’t feel both her palms as she overused them on the handle of the crutches. The injured foot was still very bloated and she said she felt pulsating sensations. The medicines also caused her gastric pain and she had to skip college for two days.
As for me, I’ve been Sherilyn’s personal maid the past week. I cook her food, bring the food to her, bring the dirty dishes to the wet kitchen and then wash them, serve her drinks, cut fruits for her (and repeatedly nag her to eat them), open the door for her when she comes home, then pull a couple of wet wipes for her to wipe her crutches, hand her dry tissues to dry the crutches before she hobbles inside.
Sherilyn went for a session of physiotherapy on Friday and will go for another session next Monday. I hope the bills incurred on the physiotherapy will be claimable from our insurance company as they’re pretty costly.
Sherilyn will have to take a hiatus from dancing for at least 2-3 months for her foot to heal completely. This girl is very prone to injuries on her feet and ankles. She’s had three X-rays done on her feet since she was 11 years old caused by falls and multiple falls / lateral ankle sprains that didn’t require X-ray but needed phsyiotherapy or acupuncture and blood letting. As she’s a dare devil, headstrong and impulsive by nature, she’s very prone to accidents since she was a toddler. And because of that, I got an accident insurance for her since she was a year old 🙄
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