I feel unbearably stupid and like this is going to be a ginormous waste of time.

Why would it be stupid? Did you miss the part where I fell once and ended up needing surgery? And we didn't figure out that I needed surgery until six months later, because I didn't get it checked out past x-rays?

There's nothing wrong with making sure you're okay.

It's former jock mentality. Shake it off, I'm okay, no really, nothing a little ibu won't help.

I'm thinking, however, the burning sensation isn't something I can just shake off.

I have known parents who felt their parenting was being criticized when their baby was clocked in at 5%ile for weight (my favorite example being my Asian-American friend with her 5'4" husband's baby, it was always, "tsk tsk, we need to fatten her up,"), so I don't think you have to have a label like "underweight" to find discomfort in the idea of comparing your kid (or yourself) to an abstract number (despite the number's basis in some statistical average, which may or may not actually be valid).

Ankles are very complex and you don't want to inadvertently do more damage. Get it checked out.

Yes, get it checked out. The ankle had to do a lot of work since pretty much your entire body-weight can rest on it.

Also, my mother broke her ankle when she was 50 and it was prone to all kinds of problems thereafter. Sorry, that's a bit doom & gloom, but it's just meant as a cautionary tale.

Okey doke, I'm going in the next half hour.

In the meantime, the WTF, it burns.

My new issue of InStyle has a pop up ad.

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Why yes, they're butterflies. But look closely.

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Yes. The butterflies are made up of teeny tiny pairs of underwear.

The pop-up butterfly panties are awful cute, but not as cute as the previous princess picture.

My favorite Doctor Being An Idiot About Weight story was a friend of mine who was told "You need to loose weight, you've put on 30 lbs since you started college."

When she started college? She was literally malnourished. Truly honest to goodness malnourished in 1990s America. When she saw a dentist for the first time in her life at the age of 20 he wound up presenting a paper featuring her gums and no one at the conference knew of gums in her condition outside the third world.

The fact that her Doctor didn't know her appalling history of neglect I guess I can live with. The fact that he'd picked this particular statistic to go with (18 is some Universal Platonic Weight Ideal? Um, ok...)and that he didn't have eyes in his head to see that the late-twenties woman in front of him wasn't overweight at all nevermind thirty pounds overweight is tougher to comprehend.

This is apparently customer service hell week.

I keep getting this as part of a 404 message on the ATT site:

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

I'm kind of unnerved that they're letting the server decide.

I think that BMI for kids is what's replaced the old height/weight charts. It's a different scale than the one used for adults, and adjusted for age.

I remember as a kid being concerned about whether my height and weight percentiles matched. I was generally near the bottom of the chart for weight, and somewhere below the chart for height. When I was ten, my height was actually on the chart for the first time in years, at the fifth percentile, and my weight was at the 25th, and my doctor told my mom that she was concerned about that. (I started Weight Watchers for the first time not long after that.)

With the BMI, another issue for short people is that the ranges are so small. The difference between "normal" and "obese" for me is less than 20 pounds.