%$#@!

So I was a bit clumsy. When walking from the living room into my bedroom, yesterday afternoon, I accidentally kicked the bookcase right beside the door and snagged my left little toe upon it. I cursed, held my foot, and jumped up and down a couple of times, just like a caricature of someone who has stubbed their toe.

Then I looked down at my foot and saw that little toe sticking out to the side at an angle it really shouldn't. Whoops. Ouch.

I spent the afternoon and early evening in the emergency room at Kaiser Permanente, waiting to have my foot X-rayed and to have a physician strap the poor toe to its neighbor. The toe has a fracture, and I am to go about on crutches until a podiatrist gives me the go-ahead to walk normally again.

My foot hurt like the dickens all afternoon and into the evening. Today, though, there is almost no pain at all. Now I'm waiting to hear from the podiatrist's office, to find out when I can be seen.