2016 has been all about bad things happening beyond control or a normal amount of precautions. Lightning struck a tree causing a branch to fall on the only other thing in the wide open yard, daughters’ swingset, washer drum broke off it’s mounts the night before I crucially needed to use it, the flood resulting in sewer backup etc.
But there was one more thing that had to get me before the year was up.
Last Saturday on Christmas Eve, I was bringing some 2-liter bottles down to the downstairs Mancave fridge, when one of them(Diet Coke) ripped from the flimsy Walmart plastic bags and it landed cap down, right on my big toe. Right on the space between the knuckle and the base of the foot. Yes, swelled profusely, turned many shades of purple I didn’t expect it could do, and feels like a break.
To be fair though, was only the second most excruciatingly painful event of the evening. All of my in-laws came over a few hours later.
Sux about the toe…done that too often to even think about, and it hurts! Usually can’t even wear shoes for a while. (The in-laws thing…) You surely did have your share of bad luck last year sawa, maybe 2017 will be all roses and sunshine to balance it out. I hope so.
2016 was about a lot of unpredictable accidents …I guess I came within a whisker of being widowed Saturday night…hubs was taking the convertible to pick up some Mexican food, and the brakes totally failed. (Good thing we don’t have hills around here…he got it stopped before rolling into the smash-'em-up intersection filled with early New Year’s celebrators in SUVs.)
Worse, he was only having to go pick up food in the first place because my computer was crashing and I wanted to deal with that. So I’m not sure if 2016 was good or bad…lots of aggravation, right up to the very end, but thankfully no serious injuries, despite an above-average number of near misses last year. Maybe it was good luck.
(Or maybe my karma needs some serious tweaking. Chuckle!)
2016 was just an unsettling year…maybe 2017 will be a little quieter. (hope)
Man, what a day, hope you are recovering. Lucky you didn’t have a mentos on your foot at the time… Seriously, know the pain (horse stamped my big toe right there, not fun) and big toe fractures really hurt.
Just a note, if it is the proximal tarsal bone (what you described) you may want an x-ray as if this is a displaced fracture it could need a pin or could heal really off (most time we just tape it to the adjacent toe, but sometimes you get very unlucky).
ahead for you this year!!
) You surely did have your share of bad luck last year sawa, maybe 2017 will be all roses and sunshine to balance it out. I hope so.
