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I like having an EMT housemate.
May. 31st, 2008 10:18 amBefore I say any more, I'M FINE. Thank you, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shrike30 for assessing my foot and giving me a ride to the ER this morning. (We are about to leave.)
I went to bed last night whining because my foot was a little sore and I didn't know why. It felt like my big toe joint needed to pop, or a slight muscle strain. I woke up this morning with constant soreness, and stabbing pain when I tried to walk. shrike30 kindly poked at it for me, and J ran fetch-and-carry.
Tentative prognosis: Fracture. Possible reason: NO IDEA. I wasn't even sitting on my foot funny last night. Bodies are weird. But it's iced and splinted and wrapped and elevated, and on we go to get it irradiated!
Update, 4:45 p.m.: So, I went to the ER at 10:30 and they discharged me at 3:00 with a diagnosis of (I kid you not) "Foot pain." X-ray shows no fracture. J sat with me until he had to go to the library.meowse gave me a ride home.
I know it's important to get these things checked out, but it's very frustrating to spend 4.5 hours and a sizable copay to determine that I should go home, put my foot up, and apply ice and ibuprofen, just like I was going to do anyway.
Better than having some weird brittle-bone disease, but oy.
shrike30 for assessing my foot and giving me a ride to the ER this morning. (We are about to leave.)I went to bed last night whining because my foot was a little sore and I didn't know why. It felt like my big toe joint needed to pop, or a slight muscle strain. I woke up this morning with constant soreness, and stabbing pain when I tried to walk. shrike30 kindly poked at it for me, and J ran fetch-and-carry.
Tentative prognosis: Fracture. Possible reason: NO IDEA. I wasn't even sitting on my foot funny last night. Bodies are weird. But it's iced and splinted and wrapped and elevated, and on we go to get it irradiated!
Update, 4:45 p.m.: So, I went to the ER at 10:30 and they discharged me at 3:00 with a diagnosis of (I kid you not) "Foot pain." X-ray shows no fracture. J sat with me until he had to go to the library.
meowse gave me a ride home.I know it's important to get these things checked out, but it's very frustrating to spend 4.5 hours and a sizable copay to determine that I should go home, put my foot up, and apply ice and ibuprofen, just like I was going to do anyway.
Better than having some weird brittle-bone disease, but oy.
