I think that I may have broken my FOOT! OUCH!

[JanMichael]

No joke. I had to run back to the office to get some copies made for a workshop.When I left the building, and stepped onto the grass patch between the sidewalk and the curb, my foot slipped into a damned hole!

Apparently it was a grass covered water sprinkler with an accompanying shallow hole.

So now, three hours later, my ankle is just sore but the pain is pretty intense in the bottom of the foot and the outside edge.

The occasional step while walking is painful too.

OK, it's probably not broken but it HURTS!

My solution? Red, red, w(h)ine:toast:

[Droopy]

1. There are other solutions to your problems besides wine

Like beer! :beer:

[JanMichael]

2. I hobbled into the store & could only make it to the wine section...

...the beer cooler was just to far!

[prolesunited]

3. Try elevating it

and putting ice on it as well. No, not the wine, silly, your foot. ;-) Hope you feel better.

[JanMichael]

4. That WAS silly...It's a red wine, why would I put it on ice?!

Thanks for the tip, I'd forgotten to do that.

<elevates foot>

[JanMichael]

5. IGNORE MY PAIN AT YOUR PERILE!

Or something like that...

<winces>

[Shrek]

6. It's broken

The giveaway was pain is pretty intense in the bottom of the foot and the outside edge.

Each of my feet has been broken (same spot in each foot), and the pain was exactly as you described. Apparently there's a thin, fairly fragile bone that goes from your heel to the base of your small toe.

Both times the pain was non-trivial and putting any weight at all on the foot was excruciating. I'd suggest getting an x-ray just to be sure.

[JanMichael]

7. I'd say you're working with three digits!

Fact is I broke a bone in the same foot back when I was 17 (18 years ago) and it felt the same way...

<sigh>

Hey! Maybe I should sue the city for damages due to the obscured spinkler head?! Oh...No...I work for the city...

Both feet for you? Damn...Having done it to one already I really DO feel your pain.

[KG]

8. oh, c'mon.

like you've ever needed a reason to get shit faced? :)

[JanMichael]

9. Well at least I've got a REAL reason tonight!

And I'm gonna milk it til' the bottle's dry:evilgrin:

[JanMichael]

10. Update: My right foot hurts even more. News At Eleven.

<ouch>

[KG]

11. told you to wear sensible shoes.

but would you listen to KG? nooooooOOOOOOOoooooo!!!!