Hi all!
Mission: Revival of Dead Blog. Here's what I posted on my class blog.
Just wanna thank all of you for taking care of me cos I injured my ankle :) Anyway, to amuse you all, here's my experience with the chinese doc on Saturday. I went to another doctor cos my ankle kept swelling and my dad felt that it was more than a minor sprain that the previous doctor said.
My dad woke me up at about 9.30am to see the doc but I took super long cos i was limping about. Luckily, when we finally reached there at almost 11am, I didn't have to wait too long. I was told to lie on this large wooden table with a pillow under my head. When I finally managed to get onto the table, she (the chinese doc) told me to hold the edges of the table while she put my injured ankle on a small pillow thing. Then, she started bending and pressing it against the surface of the table at different angles. She constantly had to tell me to relax cos my foot was very stiff (fine, I was scared, but you would be too, if you felt as if someone was trying to break your ankle.) Then she pushed forward as she bent my knee... then pulled my ankle. There was no "crack", so she tried again. It still didn't crack. So, she started poking the skin on my ankle with something (I dunno what) and did the cup-sucking thing. I think it was to let my blood circulate better. When she was done, a male doc came and helped to pull my ankle. It "cracked" this time... but quite softly... I didn't really hear. Apparently something shifted in my ankle so they had to make it go back to it's original position by the cracking thing. Anyway, she bandaged it (it's now thicker than the one I had originally) and said I had to come back on Monday.
So that's was about it. My ankle will take about 2 weeks before it will go back to its original size, but it's feeling better now. :)
Words of advice:
1. Do NOT injure yourself unnecessarily (like missing a step while walking down the stairs).
2. Try not to talk while walking down the stairs. If you have to, watch where you are going.
3. Just don't get injured...
-Xin Yun
