Background:
I rolled my ankle in gym class while in high school a couple of years ago. SEVERE swelling and bruising, and my dad refused to take me to a hospital, an orthopedic surgeon, or anything for about 2 months. I finally got in to see a surgeon, and the X rays showed that a small piece of my talus chipped off and didn't reattach. I was put in a boot for two months. Two months later and it wasn't fixed, so he ordered an MRI. Severe bruising, so I got 2 more months on the boot. Another MRI. Two months in a cast.. after that it was 4 months in a boot. WTF? Then he didn't bother with physical therapy. This was 2 months after I got tendinitis in both of my feet and had to stop running for 6 months!
Freshman year of college I decided to undergo additional physical therapy because there is chronic swelling in my ankle. It didn't help. To this day, it's super painful, and there is usually about 4 mm of swelling.
I wanted to start couch 2 5k to help get me running, but about 5 minutes in with a good brace I was on the verge of tears. I try to walk about 3 miles a day, and about 1 mile in it's super painful. The elliptical kills it too. Bikes (any type, ugh) hurts. I can't swim other than doggy paddling (which is quite the sight, lemme tell ya! lol) so I can't really do that for cardio.
*Sigh* I give up
I'm a fatty mcfat so I don't really have any business skipping cardio exercises, and it's my favorite part!