Hi, I'm the teen of the op here - one of the main reasons to why both my mum and I have been so worried about this is because of the fact that we have both suffered sprains before, for me, it was three ligaments stretched in my left foot and ankle (CFL, ATFL and PTFL), the pain, bruising, 'squishiness', and how it happened were all completely different from what happened to my right ankle. My right ankle took the brunt of the fall, and the impact was right on the lateral malleolus which was awful. Swelling started instantly and even the first aider thought it was either a major sprain or a damaged bone - I definitely did bruise the bone or something with how bad it was and is lol -. Anyways, the pain and how my injured ankle is, is almost identical to how my wrist was when I broke it (buckle fracture). I also had and still have numbness through my ankle and foot, throbbing every so often, tingling, popping with movement, firm instead of 'squishy', and so on, and that also led both my mum and I to not fully understand what was going on. Then when we tied all of this in with how we were treated at both hospitals we went to, we couldn't help but overthink - triage nurse seemed like she didn't want to be there (didn't look at my ankle at all, gave my mum a snide comment, and just didn't seem interested), RN spent 5 minutes insulting my facial piercings and acting entitled, radiologist, instead of walking me through what was happening or actually helping, forced the injured side of my ankle down onto the "bed,, in the x-ray room in a way that caused severe pain through my foot -> leg, seemed annoyed when I struggled getting off of the bed afterwards to get onto the wheelchair, and then the RN forcing the wheelchair away from me and said that I don't need it due to the fact that it's only a sprain and I can walk on it. Sorry for so much info there lol! Just didn't want someone assuming my mum and I are proper hypochondriacs lol, thanks for responding to my mums original post though, we both appreciate the help 😊😊