Monday, October 3, 2011

I may or may not have broken my foot

OK, it's true. I did break my foot. I'm sure you're wondering how. Well, at one in the morning, I awoke with the sudden urge to pee. I have little to no bladder space ever, so when I've gotta go, I've gotta go. I sleep-drunkenly ran toward the bathroom but ran into the corner of the wall. Three of my toes made it past the wall, but the other two did not. And let the awesomeness begin. Below is an x-ray of a foot. It's not my foot, but it is a foot nonetheless. I've circled the part of my foot I broke.
I didn't go into the doctor until after work today (around 5). Yeah, I know. Brilliant. No, I couldn't actually step on my foot. Yes, I worked a 10 hour day. What of it? Anyway, when I went into the doctor, my foot looked like this:
The doctor took a look at it, heard my story, and said he thought I'd just seriously janked up my tendons. (Yes, I said "janked." Yes, I am aware I made that word up. You get what I mean.) He decided to do some x-rays anyway just to check. Good thing he did! The part of the toe circled on the x-ray above was completely broken through and was off set a little bit. To solve this problem, the 4th toe is now buddy taped to the 3rd toe. This should pull it back into alignment, though I have to go back in 2 weeks for follow up x-rays to double check the healing process. To give you a comparison of what this looks like in comparison with my normal foot, here's this picture:
That's some amazing bruising, is it not? It's a bit hard to tell, but the toe is swollen and not angled quite like its other foot counterpart. To assist with the fact that I have to walk, I was given a walking shoe:
 Sexy, no? I know, you want one in your size. They're awfully amazing. Whatever. I can walk now, however slowly it might come out. Regardless, I'll be wearing this beaut for the next 8 weeks and then be wearing "sensible shoes" for about 4 after that. Bye bye cute shoes. I'll miss you. The plus side? At least I'd gotten a pedicure on Saturday, because that's not happening for awhile.

Bottom line? I'm freaking ridiculous. Who breaks their toe because they can't walk in a straight line? Oh, that'd be me. And yes, I think this is hilarious. I've been laughing all day (well, that is, when the ibuprofen is working, anyway). So please laugh along at my ridiculousness.

1 comment:

Danielle Bateman said...

So sorry Jess! A broken foot is NO fun~ Have fun with the boot :)