Pretty Sure It's Broken
By StacyB
@Srbageldog (7716)
United States
May 5, 2018 7:34am CST
Yesterday morning I somehow managed to stub my toes on my crutches when I got up to use the bathroom, which caused me to trip, fall forward, and put weight down on my injured foot/ankle. Now the middle toe on my previously uninjured foot is all banged up and is an ugly black and blue color. It hurts like hell to walk on it or bump it at all. It's a bit swollen to boot. I think I may have fractured it.
So in the course of the last two months, I managed to fall down the stairs, fracture my ankle in two places, then possibly fracture the thumb on my left hand when I was getting in the car after getting my cast (by accidentally flopping down on my hand,) and now I have a probable broken toe on my left foot. Either I am getting clumsier as I get older or my bones are getting brittle (I'm only 34.) Osteoporosis runs in my mom's family, so perhaps I should ask to be checked for that. I shouldn't be fracturing things right and left! 
As if hopping around on one foot and hobbling in my walking boot (when I wear it) wasn't difficult enough, now I have to manage it with a beat up/probably broken toe on my "good foot." Sigh. This could only happen to me! 
As if hopping around on one foot and hobbling in my walking boot (when I wear it) wasn't difficult enough, now I have to manage it with a beat up/probably broken toe on my "good foot." Sigh. This could only happen to me! 7 people like this
8 responses
@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
6 May 18
I hope you're right! Hopefully that was the last of it.
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@Ithink (9980)
• United States
10 May 18
@Srbageldog So how can we make you safer? 
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
8 May 18
One of my very earliest memories is of knocking myself over while I was in my walker...my mom says I was 9 months old when that happened! (I guess I would have had to be pretty little to be in a walker to begin with.) So I'm starting to think I'll never grow out of it.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
11 May 18
@Ithink Maybe just put me in one of those big plastic bubbles, that protect people from germs. I'll just roll around in it, like a hamster.
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@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
5 May 18
I'm so sorry to hear this. I hope it heals quickly and yes I would be sure to get checked for that especially if it runs in your family. I have never broken a bone in my life - I just get pain alot in my back because my spine is out of place due to scoliosis but that's about all i ever encountered. Prayers for a quick recovery for you and hopefully no more falling.
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@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
6 May 18
@Srbageldog it can be. Hopefully after this you don't break anything else.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
6 May 18
Before this, the only other time I broke anything was my nose when I was in my mid-20s (that was pretty horrible too.) I'm sorry that you have scoliosis. Back pain can be unbearable. Take care. 
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
6 May 18
All it takes is falling down the wrong way and all of a sudden it's broken.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
8 May 18
@rheicel Yes, I'm very clumsy, unfortunately. This was the first time I broke anything due to clumsiness, though.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
6 May 18
Thank you. I try to be careful...but I still manage to get hurt.
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@ConVolines (1449)
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9 May 18
My guess is that you have been under extreme stress. When consumed with thoughts and stress, we are not present and are more prone to accidents. Sorry for your bad luck. Try being more present when moving around and doing things that could possibly cause an accident.
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