Yowch!

[davywavy]

Cleverly, I appear to have sprained the first knuckle of my second toe. For such a crap little injury, this is surprisingly painful.

Now, normally injuries are good for a bit of sympathy, especially when heroically gained - I considered making up an exciting tale to go with it in the hopes of people dabbing my fevered brow and buying me drinks (Whilst walking home last night I encoutered a gang of ne'er-do-wells insulting a nun. Naturally, I leapt to the ladys' assistance and in the course of issuing a punitive beating I gained a small injury...). However, I in fact gained it by firmly kicking the side of the bath whilst having a shower. So not only do I have a surprisingly painful little injury, but one gained in a fairly embarrassing fashion. After all, this is the sort of injury that old people get - and indeed entire industries have been spawned from this sort of thing:
Can't lift your foot eighteen inches off the floor? Can't get in the bath without hurting yourself? You need new Eezi-Gran^tm walk-in baths. Say goodbye to ablution injury misery forever with Eezi-Gran, suitable for anyone over eighty. Satisfied user David, of London, says: "Eeeh, this was all trees when I was a girl".

So I'm going to be hobbling for a few days, and keeping damn quiet about why to my workmates.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

My aunt once broke a toe hitting it against the step (1cm high) of the kitchen door...

[tzel.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww, poor thing! *sympathy, sympathy*

Actually, I've torn all the tendons in my baby toe before just by catching it on the leg of a kitchen chair. I had to go to three doctors before anyone would give me anything for the pain. I could barely walk. Toes get very little respect for the amount of pain they can cause.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It's odd, isn't it? That what on the face of it is so negligible causes so much pain whilst important things (brain tumours, cancer) tend to be fairly painless but much more troubling in the long term.

[tzel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's funny that way.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

"Eezi-Gran" sounds more like a relative with dubious morals than a bath for the elderly & infirm. The sort who'd have a webpage with a special "Gran Cam" set up.

Now that would be worse than Fatcam was :p

[arralethe.livejournal.com]

Nope, you aren't getting sympathy here...You didn't give me any when I got hit by a car 2 weeks ago, so you're *certainly* not getting any for a sprained toe....

But take comfort from the fact that I didn't giggle about it. Well, not *much*, anyways.