Why I still haven't hung any artwork in my new house
I guess I'm feeling a bit consoled after reading these, so thanks for the input. It just sounds like I am in for the long haul. The pain is just so weird--so diffused over the entire top of the foot that I can't really pinpoint one area. And it comes and goes: some days the foot feels pretty good and I think it is on the mend; other days it hurt just the same way it hurts a few weeks ago. It sometimes aches even if I am sitting and not walking. I have tried to "rest" it but "rest" is a hard thing to do when you live alone and still work for a living!
W2R, a broken toe after a sprained foot? Oh, my condolences! Are you in some kind of a cast for the toe?
Rest is hard even for a retiree! Yes, it has been a difficult summer for me as far as injuries and health goes. Now that I am completely moved in, I am hoping to have fewer injuries.
Marita40, although I heard a loud "POP!" when I hit my toe, and although it was bent about 45 degrees off normal, pointed towards my littlest toe, I couldn't see a doctor about it right away so I never had it x-rayed. I had to close on the house, deposit the huge certified check, and then Frank wanted to celebrate because it was his birthday and I had closed on the house, and so on. So, no doctor, no cast.
Instead, from that afternoon on I used adhesive tape and taped it to a "buddy toe" as the ER doctors always had with broken toes in the past. It didn't need to be forcefully set first, as they sometimes had to do before taping. I continued to tape it like that for a couple of weeks, and by that time it was pointing the right direction and the pain (while significant) wasn't extreme so I took the tape off and have been wearing snug socks at night to keep it from getting entangled with bedding, and never barefoot but instead with sandals during the day to keep it pointed straight forwards too.
I don't think it was badly broken because I have broken my toes many times when I was younger. IIRC it took longer than this to be able to walk easily on a broken toe. On the other hand, I can't imagine that it was not broken given the 45 degree angle. LOL I guess I was just lucky, plus being retired I have been (reluctantly) able to spend a lot of time sitting with my feet up since this happened in August. It still hurts although for the past week I have begun walking 1/3 mile each day. On Friday it hurt too much to do that, so this is about as much as I can do right now. Last night I walked 1/3 mile again, though, and it was fine.
So much sitting is not good for me, though. I am old enough that "use it or lose it" definitely seems to be kicking in and I don't like that fact.