Something is wrong...

with my left ankle. Ha, sorry if you thought from the title of the post that something's wrong with the baby. He's doing fine (as far as I can tell.) He was kicking what seemed like non-stop today, and some of them were really hard. He's also taken to kicking in two places at once, and it feels really funny. It makes me wonder how big he really is right now. I know he doesn't look like the baby he will when I'm full-term, but just how similar is he? Apparently by next week he'll be almost 2 lb's! Very exciting. We're both packing it on right now, apparently!

So. My left ankle. Well, here's how it started. A couple weeks ago I posted about cankles, and they've been a little swollen on and off ever since. Yesterday was pretty bad, and I could tell for the first time that my legs are swollen too, because when I went to take my socks off, I had this very distinct indentation around my lower leg that made my feet look fake.

That's all fine and dandy, swelling is pretty common. But yesterday I was walking down the scary set of stairs at Matthew's office and my left ankle tried giving out on me. I'd have feared for my life if I hadn't been 5 stairs from the bottom, the staircase is that tall (seriously. I have nightmares about wheezing my way to the top of them only to pass out and fall to the bottom. Or at least I have daymares about it.)

Then last night I noticed that the inside of my left ankle, just below and beside the bone on the inner part, feels bruised, though it doesn't look it. It does look and feel swollen, but then, my feet just ARE swollen, so again, no biggie.

Then I took a look at my ankles tonight, and I'm pretty sure the left ankle is swollen more than the right one. Here's the picture:


If you look close enough (or enlarge the photo of my ugly feet...hahaha) then you can see the line from the non-elastic socks I wore today which apparently were still too tight, and also the line on the tops of my feet from the shoes I wore this evening.

So what do you think? Do you think the inner part of my left ankle is sticking out more than the right? Can you tell that they're swollen at all, or is it all just a figment of my imagination???