Wanna good laugh??

[drivencrazy]

It's ok... you can laugh at me. Everyone else is so I thought I would share!

Lastnight I broke my toe no laughing matter hey?!?!

Well everyone is getting a laugh out of it, maybe it's the story about how it happenen!

Last night just before 11pm I was folding laundry and I heard my daughters door (she is 3) thinking she was going to need help to go to the bathroom I went to RUN up the stairs...

Well I fell up the stairs, how does one do that? I kicked the step and fell up them after that. The pain was SO bad that it took my breath away! Finally after getting my breath back I went to the top of the stairs and looked towards my daughters door, where I see my 5 year old son standing there with his pants down! What, now I am thinking he has gone to the restroom somewhere in my daughters room (he didn't) but I am looking around and my husband is helping our sleep walking son! I hobble back to the top of the stairs and can hardly move.

I scoot down stairs and am sitting on the floor, not knowing to laugh or cry and my hubby is looking at my foot and toe. There is a lump on my foot and the pain in my toe is killing me, so he says that he is going to take me to the ER!

Out come is a broken big toe and my foot is shifted, brused, but not broken!

OUCH!!

Gotta take my oldest to volleyball now..............

 

[Tinkerbell424]

Feel better!

Sounds like something that would happen to my mom,

 

[mickeymedic]

Owwww! At least you have a sense of humor about it. I've fallen up the stairs a few times, too. Luckily I've never done any lasting damage. Hope your foot feels better soon.

 

[Microcell]

I will not laugh at your pain... ok well maybe a little.

Here is a giggle for you...

I broke my baby toe kicking my sister in the shin! (that, I believe is the definition of Karma)

 

[MM27]

I can feel your pain
I broke my big toe a couple of years ago at the airport. Luckily it was after my vacation.

 

[drivencrazy]

Thanks.

I really wasn't sure about going to the ER lastnight, but since hubby works his 24 hours on today he thought we had better go so I wouldn't have to go on my own or with kids today!

Since he is at work, I had to take our daughter to volleyball... it took me about 10 minutes to walk into the school!

I need to try and keep weight off of it for 3-5 days!!!!!!!! What that doctor must not have kids! So after the game we stopped and got some cruthces, they STINK!

I also talked to my friend who is a nurse.................. Ugggggggggg. She thinks that my foot is also broken. I didn't take my "shoe" thing they have me wearing for her to look at it, but after telling her how it is feeling and what happened, and also telling her what the doctor said, she thinks that it is broken somewhere in there........... so I guess I will be following up with our doctor on Monday or Tuesday, unless it feels lots better soon!!!

 

[Kae]

I fell up the stairs once & also broke my toe. Hurt like heck. I was running up the stairs becayse I was late for work. So I was at work all day Was working in a Salon at the time & I kept saying wow my toe still hurts-driving everyone crazy with it get home that night & take of my shoe & the toe is black & now huge. I felt like such a klutz.

Kae

 

[lvanleer]

I feel your pain.....when I was in 7th grade I was lying on my bed with my head off looking at my closet door....I tried sitting back up on the bed and my legs went flying over me and needless to say my big toe on my right foot hit my closet door and broke.....oh the agony....because I had been trying to balance myself on a ball in my room previously and my parents didn't believe my story of my toe hitting the closet door....but it did....all they did for me was tape it to my other toe.

 

[Nancy]

Thanks.

I really wasn't sure about going to the ER lastnight, but since hubby works his 24 hours on today he thought we had better go so I wouldn't have to go on my own or with kids today!

Since he is at work, I had to take our daughter to volleyball... it took me about 10 minutes to walk into the school!

I need to try and keep weight off of it for 3-5 days!!!!!!!! What that doctor must not have kids! So after the game we stopped and got some cruthces, they STINK!

I also talked to my friend who is a nurse.................. Ugggggggggg. She thinks that my foot is also broken. I didn't take my "shoe" thing they have me wearing for her to look at it, but after telling her how it is feeling and what happened, and also telling her what the doctor said, she thinks that it is broken somewhere in there........... so I guess I will be following up with our doctor on Monday or Tuesday, unless it feels lots better soon!!!

Could be a hairline fracture in there someplace rather than an actual break. I fell on ice, my feet went up in the air and then slammed down on the driveway. I ended up with a broken bone and a hairline fracture on another bone higher up. The hairline fracture was worse than the break as far as healing went and it hurt way more when I touched it. 6 weeks in a walking cast for that one.

 

[drivencrazy]

Could be a hairline fracture in there someplace rather than an actual break. I fell on ice, my feet went up in the air and then slammed down on the driveway. I ended up with a broken bone and a hairline fracture on another bone higher up. The hairline fracture was worse than the break as far as healing went and it hurt way more when I touched it. 6 weeks in a walking cast for that one.

How would one go about finding out if there is an hairline fracture in there somewhere?? I am thinking that only the ER doctor looked at the x-rays... I am questioning her some I guess.

My toe still feels like it is on FIRE, and that is pretty much where she said the brake is... but the pain also goes up my foot, the top of my foot from where my toe hurts to almost my ankle. Not sure what to think.

The Crazy things that happen!

But I think my Mom and Dad felt kind of bad for laughing so much at me... they brought us a take and bake pizza for dinner since my foot/toe is hurting and they know that hubby is working! My Mom said that I probably didn't want to be standing to cook

 

[Octoberbride03]

Thanks.

I really wasn't sure about going to the ER lastnight, but since hubby works his 24 hours on today he thought we had better go so I wouldn't have to go on my own or with kids today!

Since he is at work, I had to take our daughter to volleyball... it took me about 10 minutes to walk into the school!

I need to try and keep weight off of it for 3-5 days!!!!!!!! What that doctor must not have kids! So after the game we stopped and got some cruthces, they STINK!

I also talked to my friend who is a nurse.................. Ugggggggggg. She thinks that my foot is also broken. I didn't take my "shoe" thing they have me wearing for her to look at it, but after telling her how it is feeling and what happened, and also telling her what the doctor said, she thinks that it is broken somewhere in there........... so I guess I will be following up with our doctor on Monday or Tuesday, unless it feels lots better soon!!!

If they gave you a boot to wear that rocks when its on(basically 1 that fits on a cast) then the pressure on your toe should be completely off and your foot should feel great. If it doesn't feel good walking with the boot on, then you probably did more than twist it in the fall.

I've broken twice and the boot was a lifesaver, didn't even bother with the ER cause it was just a broken toe. I also used a foot bath with ice water to help with the swelling, takes getting used to, but it works.

 

[lovetoscrap]

Okay, maybe not really laughing at you, more just a little snicker. But I do feel your pain. Crutches stink. GET ONE OF THESE!http://www.rolleraid.com/patients.html

I have one right now for post surgery and it is the best thing in the world! And you can move much faster! And once you are used to it you can really be almost "hands free" in the kitchen and it is just well worth the rental money.

Call you local Medical Supply stores and ask if they have knee scooters. The swivel wheels are worth the extra money! If you can't find one locally you can get the online for rent-- they ship for free and then you ship it back for free. So great!

I was using mine at the school the other night and had my big Darth Vader boot on. A Dad passed me with his big boot on and the principal said we needed to share stories. Ends up the other guy had dropped a TV on his foot! He was taking it to the dump and went to pull it out of the car and was trying to do a huge pull and then fling it into the pit. The cord got caught on the seat and the whole thing fell on his foot ( he was wearing flip flops!) Needless to say, he broke several bones.

If you want more info on the knee scooter PM me. I am telling you it is the best thing. Especially with your little kids and busy life.

 

[drivencrazy]

They gave me a shoe type thing, it's not a boot that goes up the leg, it stops at the ankle. It still hurts non-stop if it's up or down, if I am walking or sitting, it does hurt more while standing.

Now the cruches are killing my arms, I guess I was trying to go to far on them, but things had to get done ............. I did sit quite a bit and kept my foot up so I guess that is a good thing!

I am deffently looking into a knee scooter, I really could have used that today!

To make matters even better, I was sitting on the couch trying to wake my 3 year old, yes, wake her to put her to bed she fell asleep on the couch aound 7:45 so she needed to put jammies on and get into bed and while I was sitting there the DUMB DOG steped on my foot!!!!!!!!!! Can you say OUCH Well he steped on the "buddy" toe, the one next to the big one that is broke, yes they are taped together so I felt pain like it was just happening all over again - maybe even worse!

UGGGGGGGGGGggggggggg. I'm going to bed now, lack of sleep lastnight and so much pain, I give up for the night! I am going to take my pain killer and hit the hay!

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better one!

 

[suzannews]

I feel your pain!

I broke my little toe and the one next to it almost 3 years ago after tripping over cases of Girl Scout cookies in my living room at 2am. We were leaving for my husband's Grandmothers funeral 2 days later and I was trying to get them sorted and delivered before we went. Lets just say Ohio in February with closed toe shoes with 2 broken toes was not fun.

 

[broncopooh]

I also broke my toe 6 months ago. It was the toe next to the little toe. A large candle in a jar fell off the top of a shelf (5 feet fall) and landed on my bare foot. I started screaming which isn't like me at all, then asked for a bowl because I was going to throw up from the pain. (my family still laughs about that part). It was broken in 3 places and my entire foot turned black and blue. I worked three 12 hour shifts (as an L & D nurse) with just a shoe cover on my foot because I couldn't wear my shoe, and finally couldn't stand the pain. My doctor was amazed that I did that much walking on it, put me in a shoe and wouldn't let me work for 2 weeks. Would have gone back to work after one week, but got up in the middle of the night and stubbed it on my husbands steel toed work boots that he didn't put away. grrr. It's been 6 months and it still hurts sometimes and still has a purple bump on top. My foot doctor told me it could take up to a year to totally heal. I can feel your pain. Hope your foot isn't broken along with the toe.

 

[nephthys43]

Well I fell up the stairs, how does one do that?

i did that and broke my foot. i kept telling everyone that i fell up the stairs and people would just look at me funny

 

[Nancy]

How would one go about finding out if there is an hairline fracture in there somewhere?? I am thinking that only the ER doctor looked at the x-rays... I am questioning her some I guess.

My toe still feels like it is on FIRE, and that is pretty much where she said the brake is... but the pain also goes up my foot, the top of my foot from where my toe hurts to almost my ankle. Not sure what to think.

The Crazy things that happen!

But I think my Mom and Dad felt kind of bad for laughing so much at me... they brought us a take and bake pizza for dinner since my foot/toe is hurting and they know that hubby is working! My Mom said that I probably didn't want to be standing to cook

I actually went to my orthopaedic sugeon because I had surgery on that same foot about 4 months beforehand and wanted to make sure I didn't damage the work he did. He even had a hard time seeing the fracture on the x-rays because of where it was in my foot. But, he knew it was there because the minute he touched it I just about jumped off the table from the pain. It did hurt for a very long time though.

 

[goofypooh]

I agree, go to an orthopedic doctor. My mom broke her foot a couple years ago. When she first had it x-rayed, they told her nothing was broken. When she went to the orthopedic doctor & he told her it was broken, he basically said "I'm trained to look at these x-rays". If you're in pain, definitely have it checked out again. Hope you feel better!

 

[ntsammy5]

I don't think it's funny that you hurt yourself either - there are actually lots of funnier ways to break bones!

Be careful and hope your toe gets better!

 

[drivencrazy]

Still hurting. Can't win, it hurts to walk on it, but it also is killing my arms using the cruches... looking forward to renting a knee scooter but haven't had much luck in that one yet................... I think I will be going to the doctor again tomorrow and see what they think!

Thanks