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magidYesterday morning I stepped poorly, and instead of merely stubbing my toe, seem to have managed to break it. It's the second-smallest right-foot toe, so really, all there is to do is RICE for the first days, and buddy bandage it to the next-largest toe (with gauze between). I'm supposed to minimize walking and standing apparently, too. Which is hard to quantify, and inconvenient.
Yesterday, I pretty much stayed home, had an ibuprofen and an Aleve over the course of the day, plus a lot of cooling. Today, not so much with the cooling, and no drugs: I wanted to be able to feel if I did something stupid, especially since I knew I'd be walking, and didn't want to be too stupid. And for a while, the walking was fine; I had few steps that moved those toes, though it's an odd sort-of-limping gait. Towards the end of my errands, though, my toe started aching anyway. I mapped my route when I got home, and it was at around the 2.5 mile mark. New goal: walks that are less than 2 miles.
Driving is ok, but I'd like not to do much of it. I'm wondering how biking would be: it's more like sitting, and since I have the clipless pedals, the ball of my foot is always where I put pressure, but I can imagine it's easier to forget or do involuntary toe movements when biking. Probably not smart, at least until it starts to heal. Which I want to encourage to happen quickly, so should try to eat more foods with bioavailable calcium. Any other suggestions to encourage bones to knit?
(Also, apparently breaking my toe also means I'm more likely to get arthritis in that toe someday. ::sigh::)
Yesterday, I pretty much stayed home, had an ibuprofen and an Aleve over the course of the day, plus a lot of cooling. Today, not so much with the cooling, and no drugs: I wanted to be able to feel if I did something stupid, especially since I knew I'd be walking, and didn't want to be too stupid. And for a while, the walking was fine; I had few steps that moved those toes, though it's an odd sort-of-limping gait. Towards the end of my errands, though, my toe started aching anyway. I mapped my route when I got home, and it was at around the 2.5 mile mark. New goal: walks that are less than 2 miles.
Driving is ok, but I'd like not to do much of it. I'm wondering how biking would be: it's more like sitting, and since I have the clipless pedals, the ball of my foot is always where I put pressure, but I can imagine it's easier to forget or do involuntary toe movements when biking. Probably not smart, at least until it starts to heal. Which I want to encourage to happen quickly, so should try to eat more foods with bioavailable calcium. Any other suggestions to encourage bones to knit?
(Also, apparently breaking my toe also means I'm more likely to get arthritis in that toe someday. ::sigh::)