I got up early to wrap gifts, then decided to make a cheesy omelet with buttery wheat toast and keilbasa. As usual, everything was ready at the same time, meaning I had to rush to get the eggs on a plate, the keilbasa off the grill and toast out of the toaster and buttered.
In the process of pulling the toast out of the toaster oven, a good part of my hand pressed against the heating coils, which were still on and red hot (my toaster only has on or off, off being unplugged).
Ouch.
Lately I’ve been working out with dumb bells in the morning and leaving them beside my coffee table. This morning, after eating that delicious breakfast and in a rush to get to wrapping, I whacked my foot against the edge of a dumb bell. I thought the burn hurt, but this hurt many times more. I actually hit so hard that the nail split, sending one piece flying.
With the gifts wrapped, I decided to take a nap. When I woke, the beauty that is pain washed over me. Holy moly, the hand hurts a bit, but the toe hurts like holy hell.
It’s times like this that I am glad that I gave up those wild, coke filled days as a male hand and foot model.
Bad things don’t always happen in threes. I have noted that once I start fumbling stuff, more fumbling occurs. The toe kicking thing seems to happen after other things go wrong. You may indeed have a broken toe. I suggest taping it and then taping it to another toe. That and pain killers is about all you can do. The maximum pain level often comes 48 hours after the injury so don’t be alarmed if it hurts worse the next day. Then it should start to improve.
I managed to break my big toe playing squash. I was going for a shot down the wall and slammed my foot down a bit too close to said wall. Hurt like hell. Weirdly, despite growing up playing rugby, that broken toe is still my worst ever sporting injury. ()
() Unless skateboarding is a sport and only managing to do it for five minutes is considered participating. I fell off, honest to God, within five minutes of my first time on a skateboard. I broke my ankle in a way that required two operations. I have not since been on a skateboard.
I whacked my pinky toe this morning on my tv stand. Wow, that hurt.
The weird thing is, I stepped on a nail back in April and my foot hasn’t been the same since. I’ve had an xray that showed nothing wrong, yet that pinky toe, or the joint at the foot specifically, has been hurting bad since that nail. Some mornings it’ll feel like I’m walking on fire, otherwise I get a good, dull pain.
Now since whacking it the joint hurts like holly hell. The toe itself feels fine, but the joint (where all the pain has been) hurts really, really bad. Did I somehow weaken the bone with the nail puncture? That seems impossible, given the negative xrays.
