Last night I fell down a flight of stairs and rolled my ankle bad. It’s black and blue and swollen but my s/o has no sympathy for me already. In context I only ask her to help me to the bathroom. Besides crawling, which I do now, should I duke it out more? I just don’t understand, I can’t physically put weight on it(without involuntarily screaming).
I hate to say it this mean, but your SO is a fucking idiot.
There’s no way to know what’s wrong for sure, but the extreme bruising, degree of pain, and inability to bear weight all point to a more severe injury, be is a break, a horrible sprain, or even some kind of outright tear to ligaments or tendons.
At the very minimum, you need to RICE that shit, get some crutches, and add some NSAIDs for both the pain and the inflammation/swelling.
Seriously, your partner is out of their fucking mind if they can’t tell a bad injury needs to be taken care of.
Expect at least a week of recovery, that’s about as fast as sprain is going to improve enough to walk unaided by something. You can maybe make do with a cane until you can get xrays done. And you should. A bad enough break can literally cripple you long term. If it heals bad, you could end up needing surgery to fix it, and even that won’t always get you back to 100%. I’m not saying that’s what it is, I’m just saying that the worst case scenario is life long pain and loss of mobility.
My wife sprained her ankle so badly that some of the ligaments tore. Her orthopedic doctor said she wasn’t allowed to walk for 2-3 weeks and even after that it was light light light exercise / PT