I think I may have broken my toe. Right now it’s just swelling up, but I’m still able to walk on it. This poor toe is having a bad year. It lost its nail a few months ago. How can you ever be sure that you have broken one of these things anyway? Maybe it’s just really badly bruised. Not that you can do anything about it. This same toe has had a tough life.
Remember when I told the story about the different hobbies I try? Well, this was the toe I think I may have broken when I was trying to teach myself to juggle. I was in my living room and trying to get that whole hand-eye coordination thing down. Basically, I spent a lot of time running after the stupid beanbags. Well, one of them had rolled under my coffee table. As I bent down to get it, I stubbed my toe really hard on one of the table legs. That may have been when I decided to quit that particular hobby. I couldn’t wear any of my shoes, so I came in to work the next day with a slipper on my foot. I will never forget the shrieks of laughter coming from my evil, horrible coworkers as I told the story. Ok, maybe it was funny.
A few years before that, I went canoeing with some of my coworkers. Actually, it was more “ca-brewing” since each canoe was armed with its own cooler. Well, there I was in my canoe with my manager, and we just couldn’t seem to canoe very well together. The drinking part was fine, it was the steering part that seemed to give us the trouble. I think I spent more time falling out of the darn thing than sitting in it. Our main priority was to save the cooler, of course. I am thinking that it was one of these spills that caused the injury. It’s hard to say. Between the alcohol and the freezing water, the feeling in my extremities wasn’t exactly sharp. It wasn’t until later that I realized that walking was a bit more difficult than it should have been.
So this time around I was in my closet moving things around, getting ready to unpack my winter clothes and move them in. I have a stool that I keep in there so I can get to the higher shelves. Anyway, I stepped down off the stool and right onto a pair of shoes that are currently without an assigned location in the closet. Ouch. So, here we go again. Looks like I need to find some tape so I can tape this poor thing to his neighbor. Does this mean I can stop working out?
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It's always my right pinky toe that gets it! The first time, I walked into an office chair, and it it was almost completely perpendicular to my other toes...Youch! The next time I was simply trying to step over a child on the floor when he decided to change positions and cracked his heel right into poor little piggy.
I heard that! After all the money you paid, you better not quit! I'll track down Juliette and sick her on you! BEsides, there are plenty of exercises that won't strain you toe.
Yeah, yeah. I hear you. Luckily, I had already gone to the gym yesterday morning well before the accident.
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