Briefly packing my bag the night before I assumed everything I needed was in there but never doubled checked the bag. After getting dressed, my mom rushed me to the school so I could have time to warm-up with the team before the actual game started. Once I was arrived, the routine was to put on my ankle braces and then put on my shoes, but as I was looking I realized only one ankle brace found upon. I have always played with both of my ankle braces; I have never played a game without them and this will be the one game I would only have one. This was the game of a bad feeling. I just knew I was going to get hurt, but I told myself I would not play in fear. Being offered by the trainer to get my ankle rapped, but I didn't like ankle rapping with tape, because of the feeling of not being able to move because of the stiffness, so I declined the offer. I decided to play the basketball game with only one ankle brace.
The game started and the opponent won the possession of the basketball, so the first viewpoint was defense. The first pass of the game, I stole the ball going down to the opposite end of the court. As I was in stride to go up for a lay-up, my opponent was underneath me and coming down from the lay-up her foot was in my landing position and it caused me to roll my ankle on her foot. This has happened to me once before, so I tried to walk it off like normally, but when I got up I fell right back down. I couldn't get back up anymore and from there, I was carried off the court to the trainer room and proceed to the emergency room from there. After an x-ray was completed, there wasn't a broken bone so I was told to see an ankle specialist because he couldn't tell what was injured just by looking at the x-ray. Being that it was a few days before Thanksgiving there wasn't a specialist open for me to go to, I had to wait until the break was over with. .
After thanksgiving break, a doctor's appointment was finally made to diagnose my injury.
