11-10-2008, 04:59 PM
Yesterday I was stood on at work by one of the *darling* young horses we have in at the moment. It was rather painful but I could walk, in a fashion, so I left my boot on and carried on working.
After work I removed my boot and was a little disappointed to discover that there was no black toe nail - I had assumed this was what had been causing me pain whilst I was walking as it was just the tip of my toe that was immensly painful. The middle toe was a little swollen but that was that. An hour later I was a little worried to find that the majority of my middle toe was BLACK!!!! The bruise was all the way up the side of my toe and went in a ring round the back of my toe under the 'pad' of the toe. I treated it with various concoctions from the vets cabinet (I live at work and the vets cabinet always comes in handy!!!) and strapped it up.
This morning I jumped out of bed having rather forgotten about it and screeched pretty loud from the pain as I landed on it!!! After finishing morning yards I tootled off to the doctors (I very nearly wrote vets then!!) to have it checked out. Doctor says she is as certain as she can be without an x-ray that it is broken, I should be resting with foot elevated - FAT CHANCE - I'm working!!! Can't see the boss giving me sick leave for a broken toe and mine is not a job where I can just be left to sit at a desk and do paperwork!! I now have an impressive cocktail of painkillers to take whilst its bad and wait 6 weeks for it to heal!!
I love my job :biggrin: plus I can't believe how painful such a small prt of your body can be!!
After work I removed my boot and was a little disappointed to discover that there was no black toe nail - I had assumed this was what had been causing me pain whilst I was walking as it was just the tip of my toe that was immensly painful. The middle toe was a little swollen but that was that. An hour later I was a little worried to find that the majority of my middle toe was BLACK!!!! The bruise was all the way up the side of my toe and went in a ring round the back of my toe under the 'pad' of the toe. I treated it with various concoctions from the vets cabinet (I live at work and the vets cabinet always comes in handy!!!) and strapped it up.
This morning I jumped out of bed having rather forgotten about it and screeched pretty loud from the pain as I landed on it!!! After finishing morning yards I tootled off to the doctors (I very nearly wrote vets then!!) to have it checked out. Doctor says she is as certain as she can be without an x-ray that it is broken, I should be resting with foot elevated - FAT CHANCE - I'm working!!! Can't see the boss giving me sick leave for a broken toe and mine is not a job where I can just be left to sit at a desk and do paperwork!! I now have an impressive cocktail of painkillers to take whilst its bad and wait 6 weeks for it to heal!!
I love my job :biggrin: plus I can't believe how painful such a small prt of your body can be!!
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