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brin_bellway) wrote2022-05-03 02:27 pm
brin_bellway) wrote2022-05-03 02:27 pm
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It never rains but it pours, part 2
[cw: injury, (arguably) illness]
(part 1)
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While attempting to walk around the drip bucket early yesterday evening, I misjudged and put my right foot through a ventilation grate. Both the ventilation grate and my foot were very unhappy about this.
After the pain faded enough that I could get up, I went up and sat on my parents' bed while I bandaged the scrape on my *left* foot (a side effect), and Mom recommended buddy-taping my right big toe to my second toe to support it and help it heal.
"This is the kind of thing where even if the bone *is* broken, the doctors can't really do more than we can do at home, right?" I said.
"Yeah, I broke my pinky toe once and this is what we did."
I did some double-checking, and there is a lot of conflicting information about broken toes on the Internet; I managed to gather that big toes are more serious than little toes and it *is* sometimes worth it to see a doctor for them, especially if the pain lasts days rather than hours.
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I woke up the next morning to find that the pain had not lasted days. However, when I experimentally unwrapped my toe, I found I couldn't bend the middle joint. This seemed concerning, given the stuff about big toes being more serious.
I called my general practitioner's office and was told that my GP has Long COVID and is on indefinite leave (because of fucking course), but I could see her substitute in an hour.
He prodded various spots on the toe and throughout the foot, watched how it bended (and how it didn't), and concluded that it is almost certainly not broken: the lack of bending can be caused merely by soft-tissue damage, and the relatively rapid fading of the pain is a much stronger sign. (He offered to get me an X-ray if I really wanted, but recommended against it, and given the bit about how lack of bending can be a soft-tissue thing I was fine with not X-raying it.) For the moment I should keep taping it anyway to help support it, but it should heal up in a few days.
It's good to know, and...well, *hopefully* there won't be a next time, but I'll bear it in mind.
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(part 3)
(part 1)
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While attempting to walk around the drip bucket early yesterday evening, I misjudged and put my right foot through a ventilation grate. Both the ventilation grate and my foot were very unhappy about this.
After the pain faded enough that I could get up, I went up and sat on my parents' bed while I bandaged the scrape on my *left* foot (a side effect), and Mom recommended buddy-taping my right big toe to my second toe to support it and help it heal.
"This is the kind of thing where even if the bone *is* broken, the doctors can't really do more than we can do at home, right?" I said.
"Yeah, I broke my pinky toe once and this is what we did."
I did some double-checking, and there is a lot of conflicting information about broken toes on the Internet; I managed to gather that big toes are more serious than little toes and it *is* sometimes worth it to see a doctor for them, especially if the pain lasts days rather than hours.
---
I woke up the next morning to find that the pain had not lasted days. However, when I experimentally unwrapped my toe, I found I couldn't bend the middle joint. This seemed concerning, given the stuff about big toes being more serious.
I called my general practitioner's office and was told that my GP has Long COVID and is on indefinite leave (because of fucking course), but I could see her substitute in an hour.
He prodded various spots on the toe and throughout the foot, watched how it bended (and how it didn't), and concluded that it is almost certainly not broken: the lack of bending can be caused merely by soft-tissue damage, and the relatively rapid fading of the pain is a much stronger sign. (He offered to get me an X-ray if I really wanted, but recommended against it, and given the bit about how lack of bending can be a soft-tissue thing I was fine with not X-raying it.) For the moment I should keep taping it anyway to help support it, but it should heal up in a few days.
It's good to know, and...well, *hopefully* there won't be a next time, but I'll bear it in mind.
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(part 3)
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