Jiminy Cricket

I might or might not have mentioned that when we were in Reno at the conference, I accidentally drug a heavy chair across my toe and dropped it.  It was some significant pain immediately.  It was one of the last session for the afternoon so I went up to the room and took a nap...hoping it would subside. 

Since then, it has bruised significantly but I could still walk on it and unless I touched it, it was not painful.  I figured it was probably not broken and maybe I just broke a blood vessel.   Here we are almost two weeks later and it is still black and blue and it sometimes hurts even when I don't touch it.  So I called my GP, Dr. T and went to see him today.  Seriously this is the first time in I don't know how long that I wasn't on death's door with some form of pneumonia when I visited him.  I felt pretty lucky today since that wasn't the case this time.  He took a look and sent me over to get an Xray.

The Xray lady took 3 views but the last one, she wanted the side of my toe with the other toes out of the way.  Not quite sure how you do that and even though I still have some form of "monkey toes", they were not going to go the way she wanted.  So she decided to tape underneath my toe and tape it to the table.  This lifted the injured toe and bent the top backwards.  It hurt.  Yes it hurt.  I asked her to hurry.

I got back to the room and Dr. T looked at the scans.  He took one look and shrieked.  He was very concerned with that 3rd view and said I dislocated the top ball of my toe during the Xray!  Did it hurt?  Hell yes it hurt!

Going in, I honestly thought I had a fracture across the top of my toe because the toe started bending backwards in an unnatural way.  But alas, I just broke off the side....and dislocated my toe during the Xray.

What the hell do you do with that?  What is the luck?  That is no luck really!!  So the good news is that it is straight and should heal okay but the bad news is because of the dislocation, I have to buddy wrap my toe for 4 weeks!  Since I have to travel for work next week, this is difficult.  And now it hurts..way up in my foot.  And I can't even think about getting another pedicure because it hurts.  So I have ugly toes and pain and tape.

I guess there isn't much that can be done.  I'm hoping the pain goes away soon once the trouble with fidgeting with it today passes.  And I couldn't get mad at Dr. T and his staff.  That little Xray lady is the sweetest ever.  I'm positive Dr. T gave her a talking too after I left.

Pardon the scrappy cuticles.  I can't imagine getting a pedicure right now.  Ouch!

The good news is I got my flu shot today.  Have you had yours?  If not, it's time!