Nearly in tears.... more clumsiness
As if I wasn't already baby-toe challenged enough, this morning (yet AGAIN!) I've whacked the one on my right foot on the plastic "foot" that's supposed to keep my Gazelle from sliding around the floor. It seems like every day I hurt one or the other of my smallest toes on something - protruding things, the door, something in the floor, thin air.
It hurt for a little longer than usual and I put my hand down to pinch it and will the pain to go away, only to bring my fingers back up with blood on them.
Great. Probably gonna lose another toenail over this.
I finally got my contacts in while my toe was bleeding all over the floor, more and more as I worked on contacts. I got the blood off, and rinsed it off in the tub, but it's still bleeding. And I have housework to do, though this time I really feel like sitting on the couch and crying because my toe still hurts really bad and I feel absolutely imcompetent and helpless over this situation. It's pretty bad, because usually when I hurt myself, I just scream a few times until the pain goes away a minute or two later. It didn't help this time. It just got worse.
When I got as close as I possibly could to look at the damage, it wasn't my toenail, but a circular area at the end of my toe that's bleeding. Either I chipped the bone and it cut me or I just knocked a hole in my toe.
So now I'm sitting here with this stupid looking padded apparatus on my toe so that I can still move around the house and give it some minimal protection. I imagine it'll be dirty in a matter of minutes, but I don't intend to keep it on there all day anyway. Just until it stops bleeding, It hasn't yet.
It's silly, but it's like my feelings are hurt just as much as my toe.
Later...
After my shower when I went to rebandage my toe, I could see what the problem is.
I split my toe open, vertically, from the toenail around the curve of my toe. It stopped bleeding, but it's still oozing plasma. I don't guess there's anything that I can do other than pad it well and keep it bandaged, as I hope that it heals.... Knowing my feet and their recent round of unstoppable dryness I'm afraid it's going to take a long time and might get infected.
Lovely way to start a vacation 2 days from now. :(
It hurt for a little longer than usual and I put my hand down to pinch it and will the pain to go away, only to bring my fingers back up with blood on them.
Great. Probably gonna lose another toenail over this.
I finally got my contacts in while my toe was bleeding all over the floor, more and more as I worked on contacts. I got the blood off, and rinsed it off in the tub, but it's still bleeding. And I have housework to do, though this time I really feel like sitting on the couch and crying because my toe still hurts really bad and I feel absolutely imcompetent and helpless over this situation. It's pretty bad, because usually when I hurt myself, I just scream a few times until the pain goes away a minute or two later. It didn't help this time. It just got worse.
When I got as close as I possibly could to look at the damage, it wasn't my toenail, but a circular area at the end of my toe that's bleeding. Either I chipped the bone and it cut me or I just knocked a hole in my toe.
So now I'm sitting here with this stupid looking padded apparatus on my toe so that I can still move around the house and give it some minimal protection. I imagine it'll be dirty in a matter of minutes, but I don't intend to keep it on there all day anyway. Just until it stops bleeding, It hasn't yet.
It's silly, but it's like my feelings are hurt just as much as my toe.
Later...
After my shower when I went to rebandage my toe, I could see what the problem is.
I split my toe open, vertically, from the toenail around the curve of my toe. It stopped bleeding, but it's still oozing plasma. I don't guess there's anything that I can do other than pad it well and keep it bandaged, as I hope that it heals.... Knowing my feet and their recent round of unstoppable dryness I'm afraid it's going to take a long time and might get infected.
Lovely way to start a vacation 2 days from now. :(
posted by Me at 9:53 AM
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