Oh my again.
csziggy (33,173 posts) Mon Dec 6, 2021, 10:43 PM
12. Definitely get an x-ray
I stubbed my toe badly November of last year. I didn't get it x-rayed until January this year. I broke the metatarsal - the first bone inside the foot - and splintered it into at least three pieces lengthwise.
By the time I made it to the doctor for it, it had started healing so there was nothing they could do. It did not heal straight and I have nerve pain from where the bones impinge on each other inside the ball of the foot. If I'd gone in sooner, they could have stabilized it so it healed straighter and would not have been as much trouble.
It still hurts if I walk much. Fortunately (?!) since I am recovering from an operation, I am not doing much walking right now and won't be for a bit longer.
Having watched the primitives for so long, and given that primitives tend to be older than the general population, I've seen a lot of them kick the bucket over the past few decades.
But once in a while one of them resurrects.
I thought the hippie ziggy primitive, who got married in a Mama Cass muu-muu with paisleys, had departed this vale of tears some time ago. The last photograph I saw of her, she was wearing bottle-bottomed eyeglasses.