Yesterday I broke the baby toe on my right foot – I’m getting so old & brittle, just clonking it into the wooden leg of a couch did the trick. It hurt, but I didn’t think much about it, until I took my socks off around 4:00, getting ready for a shower, and saw how black & blue it was, and there was also a kind of funny lump.
It was the winter dance at the high school last night, and, since we live so close to school, our exchange student had made plans to cook dinner with 3 of the other girls – two from Italy, ours from the Netherlands, and another from Finland. We left them picking nail polish and getting ready to cook, and Mark drove me to the urgent care, where I got fitted for a lovely stiff-soled shoe. I’m supposed to wear the thing for 4 – 6 weeks!?? Keep the foot elevated, no ibuprofen, no long walks, etc. Hard to adhere to for someone like me, walking is my main form of exercise, and I work at my computer standing up, mostly, and I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, standing up. I stayed off my foot a lot last night, though, and it feels much better today.
I’m thinking I will follow the rules for about a week – bus and drive to work, work sitting down more, etc. The doctor at urgent care also talked a lot about “buddy-taping” – taping my broke toe to the one next to it – and I think I will shift to that, and regular shoes, as soon as I can. I think the main thing is it’s going to hurt if I’m doing the wrong things, so as long as I make sure not to make the toe hurt, I’ll heal OK.
And, I kind of liked lying on the couch and ordering everyone around last night. I only got up to eat and clean up – they did everything else.
The kids made roasted rosemary potatoes, spinach salad, and chicken. We ate the leftover potatoes with blueberry pancakes for breakfast and I think tonight we’ll get a really good soup from the chicken leftovers – and I’ll do as much as I can from the couch.
- Broke toe special shoe, elevated and all
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