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An injury etc.?
So I went in for my scan on my left ankle, which apparently has a broken piece of bone floating around (causing pain and such).
The doc sent me to the foot surgeon and they took a look at the report.
The injury is from doing sports, who knows when it happened but I love my sports and was super active up until I injured myself.

Anyways, they said it was too complicated to operate on, and there may be early arthritis etc. Which is fine, I totally understand and trust my professional. However he told me that all the sports I've been working hard in all my life, shouldn't be done anymore, and that I need to change up my life. >_< Forever. He told me to deal with it. Alright, facts are laid down.
I had a little break down at the office, like a pile of bricks, the reality hasn't completely hit me yet.
Super crappy, but everything you worked for, stopped by and injury. Damn, what a downer.

Have you ever had something happen to you that made you have to change your life?
Injuries, emotional trauma, anything like that?
Total 360 time for me, gotta keep the chin up though and I'm never going to stop driving my standard scream

Haha I totally agree, never give up doing what you love.
I'm pretty stubborn, so I'm still out there on the field, pain or not.

4 years into our marriage, we discovered that Hubby had severe PTSD. Literally everything in our lives stopped and everything became about helping him through it. It took like 6 years and was AWFUL as s**t, and all the stuff we had planned, the second baby we wanted to have, the careers we wanted, the house and car we wanted, literally everything was just *poof*. There was other more important things to worry about. We're only now just barely getting back on our feet, and it's not in the same place we were before!

ACL injury and resulting nerve damage (although superficial) forced me to stop doing something I loved.

As far as emotional things. Rape changed me a lot. So did practically watching a guy die in front of me after he fell down into a gully I was hiking up.

I had to stop doing ballet at 13 when I messed up my ankle to the point of no return. I also broke the same ankle years later and ended up in a wheelchair for four months. That was a pretty big game changer, I had to change everything in my life. Illness also has changed my life, and soon I'll be saying hello to a wheelchair again but this time because chronic illness has made me weak on the daily. That's different, too. Pretty soon the bane of my life is going to be the little lip in doorways that nobody ever notices but prove a huge challenge when you're in a self-powered wheelchair. Stupid little lip hills, I curse you. But its been pretty different, from being a 13 year old athlete (ballet people are athletes) to now needing a wheelchair whenever I go out and then who knows where this illness will take me. I used to be able to run faster than all of my friends and now I'll be able to go faster than them with wheels.

There are just some things that we can't change in this life. Injury is one of them. You won't be able to do the sports you love, but maybe this permanent injury will open you up to new opportunities that you never dreamed you'd like before and indeed may never have discovered otherwise. There is still a world out there for you to discover, just in a different way. Its difficult to be optimistic when something is yanked away from you, but in time you may heal emotionally and see that there's still a good world out there to enjoy without doing sports. Who knows, you may even be able to channel your love of sports into sports a different way than participating directly in them, like you could become a sports writer or reporter, a coach, or even a sports injury special physical therapist helping others so they don't end up permanently injured, too. Who knows?

In terms of physical injury, only temporarily. I basically had a severe and strange form of Talipes, or clubbed feet. This should of been picked up when I was a baby, instead healthcare 'professionals' ignored my parent's asking for help until I was 9. That's how it ended up as bad as it was, because it was ignored for so long. Ended up having Ponseti method treatment (though my casts were left on for 6 weeks at a time, not a week, due to the severity) for many years which was bloody painful, spent a lot of time in and out of wheelchair for the next 3 years. Then had a Achilles tendon tenotomy, except one of my feet was so bad they couldn't do it as a keyhole surgery like they usually do and had to cut my foot open to sort it out.

I'm fine now though, I walk normally.