oloriel | Fortune favours gymnasts

After the swelling went down a bit over night, they could take another look at Ingrid's ankle and put her through the CT and all that to see whether the broken ankle is really the full extent of the damage.

Turns out that the joint isn't even broken. It was dislocated, but the paramedics set it right when they came in (... after they had finally found our house); the ligaments are torn, but nothing's broken. She's black and blue everywhere, of course, and got a bump on the back of her head, but, wow. Considering that right after it happened, Jörg and the medics expected all kinds of horrors from basal skull fracture to paraplegia, and considering that a free uncontrolled fall of 3 meters isn't exactly the healthiest occupation for a woman of 66 years, this comes close to a miracle.

What likely helped to prevent worse injuries was that Ingrid does a lot of sports; she teaches several gymnastics and aerobics groups and practices Tai Chi, so she's got quite firm and reliable muscles, and apparently they managed to keep things in place.

There you go, kids, when your mom says you ought to do some sports, she knows what she's talking about ;)