Federal holidays+no mail = freelancer hell

[lagilman]

*yelp* Okay, that answered the question of if I could flex my toes yet.... (I'm a toe-flexer when I'm thinking. That's part of why I prefer to go barefoot whenever possible)

So. At 36 hours and counting, the toe is still a pretty shade of blue-black-green, but it's 'only' swollen to about twice its normal size. Yay. Nail remains intact, yay. Hurts like a m**********r, oh yeah. Can walk so long as I put weight only on heel and large toe, yay (cane is optional for short distances, required for anything more).

The general consensus is a simple fracture, for painful values of 'simple.' Amusingly enough, the toe actually looks straighter than it did before....

I will now spare you further updates.
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And now since toe and felines conspire to get me up at this ungodly hour of a holiday morning -- to work. Having triumphed over the Case of the Secondary Plot, I now have to wrangle the Mutating Motivations of the Hero's faux-Mentor....

Again, remembering that I had to do this several times for Staying Dead before the universe completely gelled for me is not making this any easier. This is why we write series books -- because getting everything set up right the first time is HARD. /whinge

Comments

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

Wait, what?? ::goes to read your older entries:: Whoa. I go off LJ for a day and the damnedest things happen... Is this foot injury thing spreading? 'Cos someone on my flist broke his ankle, and less than a day later I did mine in. And now you. You'd better warn all the others reading this that they might be in for it!

[lagilman]

well, ferragus got to his toe about the same time I nailed mine (I think he was a little bit ahead) so the wave is clearly cresting... look out below!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Amusingly enough, the toe actually looks straighter than it did before....

Then you're a lucky - when I bashed in my little toe, it was a chip fracture... and the chip displaced. As if I didn't have enough trouble finding shoes that fit!

I hopped a lot. Was better than putting the foot down at all.

[lagilman]

I bruise easily, but don't break often (despite an active childhood and Not Being China Doll-on-Shelf, I've only ever fractured a pinky and now a wee toe. Nothing significant, not even when tossed from a horse or plummeting down a ski slope at whoanellytoofast).

Thankfully, I also heal fast. Can you imagine me laid up for a week or more? I'd go stark raving mad(er).

[neadods.livejournal.com]

You'd come up with some very interesting horror fic, I'm sure.

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

If you need them, I think I still have a pair of wooden crutches up in the old apartment. I'll check tonight if you want.

[lagilman]

thanks, but I've got my cane, which is all I need (I'm used to getting around on it, so the learning curve is actually a downhill slope..)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*dispenses helpful although perhaps not wanted advice* :)

If you don't have arnica cream, go forth and get some, or make someone get some for you, and put it on your poor brokded and bruised toe. It'll help reduce the swelling hugely. I'm pretty sure my hand would've taken twice as long to lose its bruising when I broke it earlier this year without it.

*ends with helpful advice* :)

[lagilman]

I was, sadly, out of arnica (note: need to get more) but the bruising is actually the only interesting part of all this, watching it fade and shift. I always forget how...vivid my bruising gets.