Bummed About My Bum Ankle

I tend to twist my left ankle. It usually hurts for a day or two and I whine like a baby but after a week it's normally completely healed. Well 3 weeks ago I thought I'd be all macho and run from the gym back home to Kringsja. Just barely 100 meters into my run, I tripped on a sewage drain sticking up from the sidewalk and twisted my ankle so badly that I started crying on the spot. I can tolerate a good amount of pain but my entire foot hurt no matter which way I moved it and the pain went up to my shins. Luckily a Norwegian woman saw and helped me back to the gym where we went to the cafe to ask for ice. The girl working looked so confused and came back with a slab of frozen meat. Apparently the cafe doesn't have ice? I was so upset and in so much pain that I hopped outside and sat by myself crying with my foot/ankle in the snow because the stupid gym didn't have ice.

I walked with a serious limp for the first couple days and it started to improve, but then I decided to go to Paris and suck it up with tons of Advil. Unfortunately all the walking didn't help the ankle situation and it just got worse. After two weeks of pain I thought maybe it was time to see a doctor. Man, trying to set up a doctor's appointment in Norway through my home health insurance is not an easy task. Especially when the automated voice recorder on the other line is in Norwegian. I never want to get injured in a foreign country again. It was a very complicated process that involved long conference calls with the doctor and the insurance company, tons of paperwork, and lots of kroner. And the only thing I found out after 2 doctor's visits and an x-ray was that it wasn't broken. Great. Well it still fucking hurts.

The worst part about it is I feel so lazy. I can't do anything. I can't run. I can't go on serious hikes. I can't join in on a simple football game behind our building. I've never been so depressed to not be able to move around.  With the weather getting warmer, I've actually found myself getting envious of the people working out and playing outside.

Meh.

On the bright side, Cindy came to visit this past weekend. We did a lot of things that I hadn't done in Oslo yet, like the Viking Ship Museum and the ferry out to the islands.

Can I please live here 

I can't believe she's already done with her study abroad in Barca. I still have 2 more months before I'm back in America and I feel like I won't have time to see everything I want to see in Europe.