Friday, April 02, 2010

In which I fail to be graceful and elegant...

So I had a gift certificate for a certain online shop and I used it to buy a really cute pair of ballet flat-ish shoes. They're a pale lavender color and are possibly the most comfortable shoes I own now. Shoes by Blowfish are always comfortable as far as I can tell. Anyway, they arrived yesterday afternoon and I immediately ripped them out of the box in a whirlwind of tissue paper and cardboard.


Anyway, I tried them on and they fit perfectly and I wanted to take a picture to share in my joy over this simple little event. After I took this picture, I promptly kicked the shoes off (who am I kidding - I took them off carefully and placed them back into their safe little box), put my flip-flops on, and walked into the bathroom so I could get ready to meet a friend for dinner. Upon exiting the bathroom, I gracefully kicked into the edge of the bathroom door. I'm like at least 125% positive that I broke at least two toes. Possibly like 3. Or two and a half.

I'm sure I've probably broken a toe before, just from being clumsy and/or reckless. But I've never had lasting pain due to it. Is it weird that I have pain radiating up through the top of my foot to my ankle? Anybody an expert on these things?

4 comments:

  1. wondering if there was a cool toe-ring in there...

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  2. Owwwww! No, I'm not an expert - that sounds like a visit to the doc is in order to be sure it's not more than "just" a broken toe(s). Radiating pain... not so good, generally. Hoping it heals rapidly!

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  3. Them darn toes - been there, done that
    Here are a couple of signs
    1) If you find that you can't stand with your weight on your injured foot for more than a minute or two, this could mean your toe is broken.
    2) An abnormal amount of swelling

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  4. Yeah there's definitely some swelling and bruising going on and much pain at the moment. I can stand, but am obviously not up to running a marathon, and I'm putting all the weight on the opposite side of my foot. I'm sure a doctor would advise against that, but such is life. Thanks for the answers!

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