Three one-legged people does not a three-legged race team make
As you know, Gary (at work) broke his ankle last fall. He had the pin taken out today so he's back in pain again, hobbling around.
Yesterday, Chris came into work with a most likely fractured ring-toe which he'd smashed into the corner of a wall the night before. So Chris and I spent some time talking about our toe injuries (his current one, my broken toe incident from last year).
This morning, I tried to cut off my left middle toe with a chair leg.
I have a folding chair I often sit on at my computer. I was sitting with my legs crossed at the ankle, sort of indian-style, with the tops of my feet on the ground and the soles face-up. I put my weight on them like that to briefly lift my weight from the chair so I could lift it and drag it forward to scoot closer to the computer. When I sat the chair back down, the right leg was directly on my middle toe (toe still face-up. The legs of the chair are missing their rubber caps, so it's just a sharp hollow tube.
Now imagine trying to cut your toe off with a very small circular cookie cutter from the bottom-up with 130lbs/59k of weight.
Yes, I sat down on the chair, on my toe. Oddly, it didn't hurt at this point because the weight of the chair was cutting off all feeling to my toe - I just felt a LOT of pressure and knew it wasn't a good kind of pressure.
Pulling the metal chair leg out of my toe HURT. Choice words were used.
After laughing-crying, I hobbled to the bathroom to disinfect my toe and plaster it in much antibiotics under a band-aid.
I do not reccomend this method of toe-removal.
So, there were three of us at work today (that's ALL of us) who were hobbling around. It was quite the thing. :P
Yesterday, Chris came into work with a most likely fractured ring-toe which he'd smashed into the corner of a wall the night before. So Chris and I spent some time talking about our toe injuries (his current one, my broken toe incident from last year).
This morning, I tried to cut off my left middle toe with a chair leg.
I have a folding chair I often sit on at my computer. I was sitting with my legs crossed at the ankle, sort of indian-style, with the tops of my feet on the ground and the soles face-up. I put my weight on them like that to briefly lift my weight from the chair so I could lift it and drag it forward to scoot closer to the computer. When I sat the chair back down, the right leg was directly on my middle toe (toe still face-up. The legs of the chair are missing their rubber caps, so it's just a sharp hollow tube.
Now imagine trying to cut your toe off with a very small circular cookie cutter from the bottom-up with 130lbs/59k of weight.
Yes, I sat down on the chair, on my toe. Oddly, it didn't hurt at this point because the weight of the chair was cutting off all feeling to my toe - I just felt a LOT of pressure and knew it wasn't a good kind of pressure.
Pulling the metal chair leg out of my toe HURT. Choice words were used.
After laughing-crying, I hobbled to the bathroom to disinfect my toe and plaster it in much antibiotics under a band-aid.
I do not reccomend this method of toe-removal.
So, there were three of us at work today (that's ALL of us) who were hobbling around. It was quite the thing. :P