Yeah, really bad title pun. Couldn’t come up with anything good off the top of my head.
Long story short – I am decently sure (like, 98+%) that, last night, I managed to fracture a toe on my left foot. (“Of my left foot”? Hmm… maybe just “one of my left toes” would be better… in any event, though …)
While all five fingers have relatively specific naming, I’ve always been amused that toes don’t seem to have quite the same sort of common naming scheme. Yes, I’m sure that podiatrists and foot-fetishists everywhere just got a bit of a twinge because they do each have specific names and it’s not their fault no one knows them.
In any event, to use what I think may be the most well-known naming convention (at least by anyone who has had their own children as babies, or remembers such from when they were quite young), it’s the “roast beef” toe.
It was, of course, my own fault. I wasn’t quite paying attention and slammed my left foot, full-force, into a doorway arch-frame. [“Ah yes … doorway openings … my arch-nemesis.”]
As soon as my foot hit, from the intensity of the pain, I was reasonably certain of what had happened. I say this because, way, way, way back when I was much younger, I fractured the little toe (the “cried wee-wee all the way home” toe), also of my left foot (trying out both conventions), and also because I wasn’t quite paying attention.
Leaving aside the issue of why I walk around my home barefoot … (It’s my house and I’ll keep my feet bare if I want to!) … since I have done this before, I’m also well aware there’s not really anything to be done about it. You can’t put a cast on it. About the only thing to do is pain-management and taping the toe to an adjacent toe or toes to keep it from flexing while it heals.
So, I now have an overly large taped up “monstrosity” (all right, I exaggerate … it’s taped up nicely and not really impeding movement) in the middle of the front of my left foot. And over the next few days / weeks, I get to slowly go to lower and lower levels of “monstrosity” as the bone mends.
Yay?
