It has been a week since I have injured my toe. I worked from home all last week and it stunk. I hate not seeing human beings. I guess some people would be excited, “hey, I get to work from home and I can do what I want.” Not me. I felt like I was in jail.
I decided that it was best not to take any pictures because it’s un-lady like to show ugly toe. This toe was so ugly black; it looked like it was going to fall off by Monday afternoon. 🙁
Having an ugly toe is fine but it hurt to an extreme while I slept; when I woke up in the mornings; when I stood for too long and when I hobbled. Any type of pressure gave an electricity of pain. This week I was supposed to be moving into my new place.
I also have some traveling to do near the end of the week and of course my buddies decided to have PaintBall this coming Saturday. I’m not sure if I can safely do all three.
Backing up a bit, last Monday morning I hobbled my way to the Doctor’s office to grab a slip that would allow me to get x-rays at another place. I hobbled back to my truck, drove to the next place and hobbled into the X-ray place. Let me tell you, people sure look at you weird when you hobble. The nurse offered a wheelchair and I hesitated at first. The thought of getting in the wheelchair was a bit humbling but that wasn’t the problem. I had this sense of being an old lady and imagined myself 30-40 years from now. Being in so much pain from standing I ended up sitting down in the wheelchair. It was actually a lot of fun riding in it because the nurse drove the wheelchair pretty fast. The nurse mentioned that she didn’t get any tickets from driving crazy with wheelchairs yet. lol.
The x-ray experience was kind of weird. Even though I was in pain the nurse mentioned that my toes would be doing some stretching while she taped them to the x-ray board. She avoided touching the 4th injured toe by taping my pinky toe to the x-ray board. Then she taped the other two toes in the opposite direction from the pinky toe. The x-rays looked hilarious when I saw her loading them on the monitor screen. The cool part of the visit was how she kept me in the wheelchair and offered to drive me out to my truck. I had to wait 3 and half hours for my actual Doctor appointment so I drove another 45 minutes to get home. I should really change doctors closer to the city.
I spent about 3 hours total driving that day. I was happy that I injured my left toe instead of my right. I wouldn’t have been able to drive that long if it was my right toe. The doctor didn’t do much but tell me about four steps to do, which anyone probably could have told me. Although, the Doctor was right about how I would have bruising farther up the toe near the veins of the foot.
My right leg and foot have been sore from shifting all of the weight to hobble. Since Thursday I have been walking extremely weird from having something wrong with both legs. What does not help is that I live on a hill. Any errands for food or anything means I have to park down the hill (darn truck is too big for SF neighborhoods!) and hobble up the hill. These are times to beg friends to drop off food. Sadly, some of my friends don’t have cars in the city to do any food drops.