Propped up.

Yesterday began as any typical day does with an early morning ride to work, 8 hours of work, and a warmer ride home in the afternoon. I played my guitar for a bit, as usual, went to a rehearsal for a wedding we're shooting saturday afternoon, and prepared for the first exhibition game of the soccer season. We were playing our arch nemesis team (the other team from our church) FC International, and it promised to have some intense action, and a very lopsided victory for FC Inter. The game began with an early goal by Danny Woelders for Inter, but then the Red Army began to fight back, controlling the ball and having some quality chances against Inter's goal keep Mike Woelders. As the first half was winding down I switched up to midfield from defense because Doug was getting tired out. being full of fresh energy I chased down Inter players and stole the ball, and passed and what not until about two minutes before halftime. I was chasing an Inter player who had the ball. The ball bounced up in the air and we both jumped and tried to kick it. As I was flying through the air, I seem to recall seeing my right foot go flying out from under me, then I hit the ground and heard "crack". That is never good to begin with, but it's often the pain that comes after which is really tough to deal with. So basically my ankle was messed up, and the prognosis on the field was that it was most likely a sprain, though later on when I went to thee hospital, someone said it's possible that it could be a break. After getting X-rayed and waiting a very (very) long time to see a doc, he basically said that he couldn't see an obvious break, but couldn't rule out the possibility of it, so he put a splint on me that runs from my toes to just below my knee, and told me to see another doctor today. I went to see that doctor this morning, and he basically said the same thing, thinking it was a sprain, but not ruling out the possibility of a break. He told me to prop it up lots this week to bring down the swelling, and to see him again in a week. He said if it's still really bad after a week, then he said he'll probably have to cast it whatever it is.


So there's a few things I have to work out now, like how long I'll have to be off work, and how I'm going to film a wedding reception by myself on Saturday night, and stuff like that.

But God is good, and unfortunate things like this don't change that at all. If anything I need to adjust my point of view to see that anything apart from hell is grace, and this isn't less than I deserve, it is in fact far more.

off to get some Ibuprofen.
out.