toe

[quietann]

thanks everyone for sympathies WRT my broken toe. It feels a lot better today, and I should say that it's a really tiny break, at the very end of the toe. Had the dish fallen half an inch further back on my foot, things would have been MUCH worse.

BTW the formal name for the drill-and-blood-draining is "trepination." The drilling part didn't hurt at all; the draining part was quite painful. Toes have a LOT of blood.

You know, no one breaks a toe in a "usual" or "normal" way. THere is always a story. Both my parents broke toes by bumping into door jambs in the middle of the night. My dad's wife broke her toe on the bottom of a swimming pool.

And then there is my brother, the Super Athlete. He surfs, skis (downhill, cross-country, and telemark), runs, cycles long distances, takes 2-3 week backpacking trips, has hiked the Pacific Coast Trail, rock climbs, etc. But he did not break his toe doing anything exciting like that. He broke his toe by tripping over a curb on his way into a 7-11 to buy beer...

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[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i broke my toe by dropping a beginning aikido student on it.

then i had to take my brown belt test with the broken toe....

hope you heal up quick and glad the procedure relieved some pain :)

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I broke a toe at Arisia, once.

The hotel restaurant wouldn't let me in without shoes on (I wear as little footwear as possible, which means I spend most cons barefoot). So I went back upstairs to the room I was crashing in. Now, I will not name names, but we were rooming with a friend of Steve's and his wife, who is a complete and total bitch (they were just engaged at the time, and she was already driving off his friends - by the time they divorced, she'd pretty much succeeded, and 6 months without friends to get rid of and her work there was done and she left). She had already thrown a tantrum driving me out of the room the night before because I fell asleep on the bed (SHE had the bed, you see), though I was on top of the blankets and fully dressed. She threw on the lights and screamed at me for 5 minutes (waking the other 7 people in the room, because she couldn't just say 'ok, I'm back, back to the floor' to me)

Anyways, I was avoiding the room, or this bitch, as much as I could, and when I went to get the shoes, I managed to break my toe in that crowded little room. I wanted to scream, but was also so desirous of avoiding dealing with the bitch queen that I did it completely silently.

I got into the restaurant barefooted, though, since my toe got huge really quickly, and I spent the rest of the day in a wheelchair because I was in an incredible amount of pain for con-hoofing.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

oh, like your dad's wife, I broke another toe on the bottom of a swimming pool, too. Specifically a wave pool. Went up....came down....crushed toe. My mother insisted nothing was wrong with it until the next day, when it was twice its normal size and purple halfway up my foot...

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

I managed to sprain an ankle on both sides by stepping off a curb. . . Boy did I feel dumb hailing a cab 2 blocks from my office...

Glad you are feeling better.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who broke her leg playing miniature golf. Okay, she tripped and fell over a barrier and broke it, but it was while she was playing mini golf.

[fixx.livejournal.com]

He broke his toe by tripping over a curb on his way into a 7-11 to buy beer...

Sadly, another example of an alcohol related injury. If only the 7-11 delivered this tragedy might have been avoided. :-)

[quietann.livejournal.com]

snicker...

but, well, he wasn't drunk *yet* when he broke his toe. (he did, in fact, go in and buy his beer, and then drove to the ER to have the toe treated. After that, he went home and got drunk...)

My brother is one of those people who is *much* more interesting (to an outsider) when he's had a beer or two. Our parents used to buy him some expensive foreign beer when they wanted to know what was going on in his love life.

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

Ow! I haven't been keeping up in LJ, so didn't read about your adventure until now... much sympathy!

So do you need a sedan chair carried by four big buff guys? :)

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

BTW the formal name for the drill-and-blood-draining is "trepination."

I'm just amused as this is the first I've ever seen the word not referring to a skull