A really long story

Some people may have noticed I showed up over the holidays with a "boot" on my left foot. Surprising I know, but it was such a long story and I did a horrible job of explaining...so I'll try and get it all out now.

It started around the last week of September. I had ordered a piece of shelving from Amazon for the house. Well, it doesn't come put together so I just set it aside. Now I have this weird heater that's in the floor. It's kind of in the path coming from my only hallway right over to the kitchen. I don't like walking over it so I put an old shelf there while the heat was still off. And right next to this shelf is where I set the BIG box with the new shelving inside. It was NOT in the walk way, but it was right next to it.

So one day I'm going from the hallway to the kitchen and cut the corner I have made just a little too short. BAM! My foot, little toes first, slams straight into the side of my box of shelving. I step back, and it hurts. I limp to the couch and it hurts. I look at my foot, nothing looks off, but it still HURTS. So I decide to sit with the foot up for a while. After about 30 minutes it's not hurting any longer. It's still tender to walk on though.

Now, flash back even further! I had hurt my foot in January while I was finishing up at UNI. I went to the health center when it became too painful to walk any sort of distance. The doc there looked it over and said my foot was probably broken, but they didn't do much for broken bones in the foot. He didn't say that OTHER doctors outside the university might do more, no. He said to buy better shoes and to take it easy. Which brings us back to my new problem. After the last debacle. I decide it's better to just take it easy and wear my best shoes because there is no point in going to the doctor if there is nothing to be done.

Yes, my foot hurt for a while after the incident. Yes, it started to feel better after a while. Then I made the big mistakes. I started changing up my footwear at work, one day good shoes and the next crap from Payless. Then the first weekend of December we got 6 inches of snow. I got to try out my new snow boots, which worked fine but put different kind of pressure on my foot. While I was shoveling everything was fine, but the next day my foot felt just as bad as it had the week I'd hurt it back in September! So I decided it was time to get to the doctor.

Happy Birthday to me, I've got insurance! I went to the doctor in Manning after work on my birthday. She actually took an X-ray and looked at what was going on. She prescribed a "boot." So I got a boot for my birthday. It was to keep pressure off the break. I was so good at hiding it that most people didn't notice it the first week I had it! So I'm told to wear it for a couple weeks and then come back for a check up. I finally scheduled the check up last week.

The doctor was pleased that I was able to stick with the boot so long. Apparently people don't care for it. But my foot NEVER hurt the whole time I wore it. What was to complain about? The break is by no means completely healed. So she suggested I try wearing it for half days my first week back. She says to stick to my tennis shoes for the next six weeks as well. Which is fine with me, they're comfortable! So I don't have to wear the boot around the house and I'll probably skip it for driving now as well. I figure I ditched it just in time. Pretty soon here we are gonna get the real smack down from Old Man Winter. I'd rather have two solid feet under me when the crap starts to pile up!