I have had an exciting day - I broke my toe/foot! Get ready to laugh - I was folding wash next to a chair in the living room on Wednesday night and watching Justin as I got up from the chair. I went to step over the basket and got my big toe caught in one of the big holes in the side of it! I started to fall forward and landed on my foot while my toe was still stuck. It got crushed under the basket.
But wait it gets better! As I was off balance, I put my other foot back to stand up and it landed in the laundry basket too! This caused the basket to flip up - with my toe still stuck in it! As the basket flipped up, I lost my balance again, my legs went out from under me, and I landed on my left hip and shoulder! This all happened in a matter of seconds! Brian was laughing so hard as he came to help me. He said I looked like some thing out of a cartoon!
Being me, I took some Advil and thought I would be fine in the morning - and I didn't want to miss the visit with our social worker! I toughed it all day Thursday and kept thinking it would be fine. I woke up this morning and it was more swollen and bruised and the pain was getting worse, not better. I gave in and called the doctor. He looked at it and decided I needed an x-ray.
Even though she wasn't supposed to, the x-ray tech told me it was broken and that they were calling my doctor. She told me to go home and wait for a call. My doctor called and by this time it was a little after3:00 pm. He wanted me to see an orthopedic doctor, but since it was so late on a Friday, I had to wait until first thing on Monday morning! My doctor said that he cannot be sure if I will need a cast or not but wants me to see the specialist and let him decide what to do. For now I have to keep off of it as much as possible - um, I have three kids!
The break is in the joint of my left big toe (called great toe by the doctor - I never knew that). It is on the side right at about the ball of my foot. In the x-ray it looks as if there is a small chip broken off and then a small line that extends into the foot from the toe! It is my first broken bone - I almost made it 36 yrs!
3 comments:
I am sorry but that is too funny! I do hope you feel better soon!
Kim I am so sorry about the broken toe. If it was one of the little ones, they just tape'em together. I hope you feel better soon. That story did make me laugh out loud though. Sorry for that but it was kind of funny. That sounds like something that would happen to me.
I'm so sorry and I hope you're okay - but I have to admit, I laughed out loud when I read this!! And then Brian saying it looked like something out of a cartoon? Well, I laughed. And I'm sorry. But I'm glad you're okay! :)
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