Smart move icing it. I was helping someone move and I had an injury similar to that and I didn't ice it like I should have. Come to find out I had internal bleeding and they ended up having to dig a hole in my leg to clear out the dead tissue that the swelling had killed. It was horrible. I am glad that you were able to recover form this and get your stuff all moved.
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Omg that is a scary thought! The swelling has mostly gone down over my whole leg but my knee itself is still a bit big. I guess I will continue icing it. The hospital x-rayed my leg and did an ultrasound. They didn't see any internal bleeding. Hopefully they looked everywhere.
How did you realize that it was been bleeding internally?
It ended up getting infected and I had to go to the hospital and get antibiotics intravenously. Then they sent me to a wound clinic. That's where they started tearing away the dead tissue and found the hematoma underneath. The pictures are nasty, I literally had a hole in my leg. It's never going to be the same either. They said hitting it again even lightly could break it back open and then I have to go back to the wound clinic.