(Ben)
I have my first injury report to make....  I was playing basketball Sunday night, and as I was preparing to elevate to slam dunk the basketball, I sprained my ankle.  Truth be told, I was not in the process of dunking, in fact I can not even jump high enough to touch the rim.  I was actually running after a loose ball, and as I grabbed the ball, I planted and rolled my ankle pretty good.  My family was present for the second game they have ever attended so they were able to witness my first sprained ankle in about 5 years.  What was cute was Bennet (my 4 year old) immediately turned into doctor and began taking care of me.  He even helped me hold ice on my ankle.  This evening (Monday), he was kissing my ankle to make it feel better.  I did not feel too bad last night after it happened, but I had to wake up in the middle of the night to relieve myself, and I barely made it back to bed.  In fact, I laid in bed for about 5 minutes after returning to bed moaning in agony.  I am doing my part to heal quick because we are going snowboarding this coming weekend at a little ski slope in Iowa, a few minutes from Omaha.  This will be the first time snowboarding for my boys, so I don't want to miss it.

Here is my ankle one hour after the sprain.  Starting to swell. 

Here it is 24 hours later.  Starting to bruise and hurts to walk.  I actually had to take a compression wrap off for this picture which hurt pretty bad.