Lightening Online

I had a really great game of netball yesterday.

Our team got the first goal and we stayed in front for the entire game.

A huge boost for us given we haven’t yet won a game this season.

And with a couple of people away this week, I was looking forward to getting a full game.

Last week I had a bit of a meltdown, feeling like I just wasn’t “good enough”.

I was ready to quit playing netball altogether.

But over the week I gave myself a good talking to.

I entered the game with a good mindset.

And this was reflected in how I was playing.

I was playing one of my better games.

And enjoying netball once again.

We were playing as a team and the score reflected that.

After 2 quarters in Centre, I went back into Wing Defence for a “break”.

There is one particular team mate that I enjoy playing Goal Defence when I am in Wing Defence.  We seem to tune into each other well and can really give the goalies curry.  She was playing Goal Defence for this quarter.

We made a great start to the quarter and managed to overturn a number of goals when it all fell apart.

Or fell down?

Someone stepped on my foot and I went over on my ankle with a crack.

By the time they got me off the court and pulled my shoe off to ice it, I had a huge bulge coming out of the side of my ankle.

The sight of it made both me and our coach a bit on the “woozie” side.

I’m not sure which pain was worse.  With the ice on and without the ice on.

We’re doing the whole

R - Rest

I - Ice

C- Compression

E- Elevation

at the moment.

The dr is hoping it’s only a bad sprain.

But if I can’t walk on it after 48 hours of the RICE treatment, I need to have it x-rayed just in case.

In the meantime, I’m hopping around, lying around and trying to sleep through the pain (that the painkillers are not really touching).

It’s been just over 24 hours now since it happened and the swelling is improving.

And I can put a tiny bit of pressure on it if I try (not without pain though - but less pain than yesterday).

On the plus side, I have 3 weeks until our next game of netball.

On the down side, we’re supposed to be going to Ayers Rock and Kings Canyon on holidays soon.  Not exactly a “lie around by the pool” kind of holiday.

So we’re just taking 1 day at a time at the moment.

I’m pretty bummed about missing out on the rest of the game though.