I severely sprained my left ankle while playing racquetball (rolled it) 8 days ago. I immediately went to the hospital and had it x-rated and they told me it wasn't broken and to basically just use the RICE method (rest, ice, compression, elevation) to heal it. It was feeling better after about 3 days but I had to work Friday and Saturday and now it feels the worst it has since I initially had the injury. My foot is black and blue on both sides of my ankle and seems to be getting more painful every morning. I started doing the RICE method as much as I can but I was thinking maybe someone out there has some extra advice.
Kicker is that I will be in Disney in two weeks so I'm really hoping I'll be able to walk on it semi-regularly by then.
this is what it looked like the day of.
this is what it looked like about 4-5 days after. Looks about the same now but with a bit more bruising.
Any advice is appreciated, thanks.