A man was left with a sprained ankle after falling over while taking graduation photos - but still went on a night out after.<br /><br />Tom Dines, 22, was busy taking some photos to commemorate his First Class Honours degree in Photography from Nottingham Trent University when he lost his footing.<br /><br />As his mum, Victoria, 43, a nurse, captured a video of Tom launching his mortarboard cap into the air before he tumbled down a ditch behind him as he went to catch the hat.<br /><br />Much to his mum's audible horror, Tom says he tried to walk it off but soon felt the searing pain as he was returning his gown.<br /><br />He was rushed to A&E but after being told of the five-hour wait time, he decided a bandage and some painkillers would do, in a bid to enjoy his final night out.<br /><br />Despite the pain, Tom made it through the night and took himself to A&E the following day after returning home to Essex where he was told he had sprained his ankle.<br /><br />Tom, currently unemployed, from Brentwood, Essex, said: "Everybody I've spoken to feels sorry for me but they can't stop watching it<br /><br />"It is quite funny, it's quite a dramatic fall.<br /><br />"The pain was absolutely terrible though, I could barely put weight on it. <br /><br />"It was the same day that we had the global IT outage so A&E wait times were really long.<br /><br />"We must have been there for almost an hour and my nan, Susan, 78, was sick of waiting. <br /><br />"They told us it would be a minimum of five hours and I didn't want to wait that long. <br /><br />"So we went to get some bandages, an ankle brace and took some painkillers and then went out for the night - taking it slowly though."<br /><br />Tom said the pain was exacerbated by a previous injury in the same area and says he's glad it didn't happen before graduating.<br /><br />He added: "The day was pretty good until that point - I had a thoroughly good time.<br /><br />"It would have been a nightmare if it had happened before.<br /><br />"It was a very bad sprain and I had a previous minor injury to a bone there which made the pain worse I think."
