Uh-Oh..... Another foot story :-/

I have a foot story to tell today, too. :) Not as exciting as Michael's,
though; I didn't have any fancy acrobatics. Nice going Michael. You may be
sore tomorrow. I took a nasty fall just about a year ago, landing on my
rump, and ended up with a broken vertebrae, requiring kyphoplasty. Keep up
with your aches and pains.

Anyway, I was sitting here in my POWER chair, had just positioned myself,
when all of sudden whooommmm here she goooooooes! I could not feel myself
doing it, but I accidentally leaned onto the controller, propelling it
forward (I was just right here at the sofa). With the myasthenia I am very
clumsy, and uncoordinated, and it caused me to fumble trying to get off of
the controller. Whenever the chair hits the slightest resistance, it goes
into *overdrive* (my description) and plows its way wherever it wants to go.
Weeeel...........it jammed my left foot right, smack dab into a wooden
designer tissue box here beside me. Now the nail on the middle toe is half
off.... not hanging, more of an elongated rip, one side on, the other loose.

I am using hydrogen peroxide for cleaning, and then applying an rx
antibiotic ointment to it. As for the next step, I really am not sure.

The bad thing about this is that my feet have had me at a pain level of 10
for the past two nights with horrible pain. For real, I have sat here and
cried for a couple of hours each night; it has taken extra pain med to cope
with it, and that took several hours. It feels like someone is taking my
foot and twisting it at the ankle (it is still badly swollen from the
cellulitis and whatever else is going on with my feet). At one point last
night I told Jim it felt like my foot was being run over by a steamroller
(you know those you see in the children's early books where they learn the
names of different objects and stuff in the story). In one story, they
could say, "Miss Billie was clumsy and got her foot in the way of Bobby the
Steamroller before he could get out of her way." Gee, I didn't have to go
and act it out in reality did I???? Guess that *could* lead to introducing
a doctor to the story, huh????

Well......... that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!!
Billie









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