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3:51pm February 8, 2014
This is the foot that I sprained or broke or whatever happened to it.  Saving this picture for my doctor’s appointment on Monday in case the bruise goes away by then.  The pain is pretty deep inside the foot, not on the surface.  And it’s not the ankle it’s in the foot itself. What happened is that the side of my foot was towards the floor, instead of the bottom, and I put my full weight on the side of my foot.  I felt a crunching-like sound and a whole lot of pain.  So I’m not sure if it’s a sprain, break, or some kind of dislocation or subluxation of one of those tiny foot bones, or torn something in the soft tissue in there.  But I’ll see when I get to the doctor.   [I refuse to go to the ER twice in one week without good reason, especially given it was so busy that I saw a woman in the waiting room whose hand was hanging sideways at an angle, and wasn’t being seen (as well as a number of people having obvious breathing trouble).  I don’t mind the wait on principle (my mom worked in an ER, I know the sort of situations that get you seen first, and why they triage), but my body doesn’t do well sitting in waiting rooms for hours at a time.  That’s why I didn’t go the minute I injured it, and why I still won’t go unless there’s something really disturbing going on with it, like spreading numbness or something.]

This is the foot that I sprained or broke or whatever happened to it.  Saving this picture for my doctor’s appointment on Monday in case the bruise goes away by then.  The pain is pretty deep inside the foot, not on the surface.  And it’s not the ankle it’s in the foot itself.

What happened is that the side of my foot was towards the floor, instead of the bottom, and I put my full weight on the side of my foot.  I felt a crunching-like sound and a whole lot of pain.  So I’m not sure if it’s a sprain, break, or some kind of dislocation or subluxation of one of those tiny foot bones, or torn something in the soft tissue in there.  But I’ll see when I get to the doctor.  

[I refuse to go to the ER twice in one week without good reason, especially given it was so busy that I saw a woman in the waiting room whose hand was hanging sideways at an angle, and wasn’t being seen (as well as a number of people having obvious breathing trouble).  I don’t mind the wait on principle (my mom worked in an ER, I know the sort of situations that get you seen first, and why they triage), but my body doesn’t do well sitting in waiting rooms for hours at a time.  That’s why I didn’t go the minute I injured it, and why I still won’t go unless there’s something really disturbing going on with it, like spreading numbness or something.]

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