I’ve broken my toe. It’s a lovely shade of blue and purple–periwinkle, perhaps. So I’m even more gimpy than usual and very irritable.
In the general scheme of things, a broken toe is no big deal (I’ve done it twice before). The regimen is simple: ice, tape, elevate, NSAIDS. Rinse and repeat (though changing to alternating ice and heat after 48 hours). The thing is, icing and heating are wholly tedious, and mostly–it’s a very small toe–I don’t bother.
But, hey, if you want to send sympathy wine, truffles, caviar, pâté, flowers, rare first edition, or dancing girls, I won’t say no…
Nicola Griffith 
How about a heartfelt “that sucks” and how exactly does one break a toe?
{{{ … nicola's toe … }}}
t, there are a variety of ways, but mine involved a piece of furniture. And a certain amount of idiocy on my part, sigh.
You & my wife both.
Ouch! Really sorry to hear this. Icing and heating are tedious, but worth in in the long run – don't stop!
mordicai, it's catching–your wife makes the third person I've heard of in the last couple of weeks. She has my sympathy.
No broken toes here, must not have gotten to Colorado yet :P. *sends ice and hotpack*
Unfo, I am fresh out of dancing girls (am up one gorgeous SLP, but she's probably straight, sigh).
Jo, perhaps she's just straight so far :)
Ah yes, the 'preying on free-range housewives' thing – tho she told me this AM that she's divorcing, so I guess the 'wife' bit can be dropped. She seems really cool to work with, which is good since my client & I are going to be seeing a lot of her for the next few months.
And if it makes your toe feel any better, I did just smash my finger with a hammer while putting in a cup hook . . . and yes, I was going about it stupidly :P.
awww, sry for that, would it help if I said I cut mine once on a piece of hot pizzs? (well, it was actually a broke piece of plate the pizza was supposed to be on, and I thougth I accidentally smeared ketchup on it until I realized my sock was cut, too…..
Oh and yesterday, I could barely ditch a piece of broken violin string.
Ah yes, I better go on writing my thesis, it's less dangerous on the pysical health part :-)
I've never met anyone who cut their foot on pizza. A first!