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13 January 2006 12:24![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denLast night as I headed out to my room in the garage, I turned off the lights and shut the back door, which is a sliding sheet of 7'x4' sheet of glass in an aluminium frame. I heard the dreaded crunch as the rollers in the bottom of the door derailed and popped off the track. Suddenly I found myself desperately clinging to a 7'x4' sheet of glass in an aluminium frame to stop it from toppling onto me or falling onto the pavers and breaking.
I struggled to lift it back onto the rails, then the bottom of the frame slipped off the step and fell the 8 inches onto the top of my bare feet, landing squarely on the knuckles of my big toes. I don't remember getting the door off my feet, but I do remember pushing it aside so I could get inside the house and lay down on the carpet. Mum came out to see what the noise was and found me laying down and clutching my head. I'd tried clutching my feet but there was no way I could do that comfortably or without causing more pain, and I had to grab something. My first thought, when I could think again, was that I'd seriouly thought I'd broken something. I looked at the damage.
My left foot is bady bruised in a narrow band right agross the top. My right foot is badly bruised the same way, and has a deep cut that nicked the major vein across the top of the big toe. I could bend my toes without increasing the pain, so nothing was broken, but doing that caused the blood to flow faster. Mum helped me bandage the cut and I went to bed.
I woke this morning to bloody sheets, and bloody marks on the floor from when I went to the toilet at some point. The bleeding had almost stopped by the time I had a shower and breakfast, so I applied some antiseptic cream (I'm allergic to liquid antiseptics like Dettol) and a cotton pad and crepe bandage over the cut.
Right now I'm trying to limp on both legs. Luckily today is quiet and I am spending most of my time at the computer. Even so it bloody hurts. I'm certain if I take my shoe off I'll never get it back on.
I struggled to lift it back onto the rails, then the bottom of the frame slipped off the step and fell the 8 inches onto the top of my bare feet, landing squarely on the knuckles of my big toes. I don't remember getting the door off my feet, but I do remember pushing it aside so I could get inside the house and lay down on the carpet. Mum came out to see what the noise was and found me laying down and clutching my head. I'd tried clutching my feet but there was no way I could do that comfortably or without causing more pain, and I had to grab something. My first thought, when I could think again, was that I'd seriouly thought I'd broken something. I looked at the damage.
My left foot is bady bruised in a narrow band right agross the top. My right foot is badly bruised the same way, and has a deep cut that nicked the major vein across the top of the big toe. I could bend my toes without increasing the pain, so nothing was broken, but doing that caused the blood to flow faster. Mum helped me bandage the cut and I went to bed.
I woke this morning to bloody sheets, and bloody marks on the floor from when I went to the toilet at some point. The bleeding had almost stopped by the time I had a shower and breakfast, so I applied some antiseptic cream (I'm allergic to liquid antiseptics like Dettol) and a cotton pad and crepe bandage over the cut.
Right now I'm trying to limp on both legs. Luckily today is quiet and I am spending most of my time at the computer. Even so it bloody hurts. I'm certain if I take my shoe off I'll never get it back on.
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 01:30 (UTC)no subject
Date: 13 Jan 2006 01:33 (UTC)I hope you heal quickly and completely.
Ow.
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 01:34 (UTC)no subject
Date: 13 Jan 2006 01:36 (UTC):(! Ow ow OW OWWWWWWW!!
I'm amazed you were able to put the glass back. My formerly mashed toe aches in sympathy! I'm glad you weren't more seriously injured.
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 02:24 (UTC)Of course, I'm a fine one to talk. Once upon a time I put a piece of board in my lap to shave one edge down a bit with my pocket knife. The resulting stab wound allowed me to examine parts of my anatomy that I really didn't want to see. I slapped some disinfectant on it and bandaged it up, and it healed nicely.
I should have gone to the doctor. Reason I didn't was that I was willing to DIE before I would admit doing something so stupid. :D But your accident wasn't your fault.
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 02:46 (UTC)Exaggerate for effect. It still bloody hurts, though.
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 03:21 (UTC)Of course now we have to face the larger repurcussions of this incident. The next batch of sliding doors to come off the assembly line is going to have so many warning labels you won't be able to see out through the glass. Heading the list will be ALWAYS WEAR ANSI CLASS 3 SAFETY FOOTWEAR WHEN OPERATING A DOOR. Followed by the kind of safety glasses, hard hat, gloves, and glass-resistant clothing you're supposed to wear. WARNING. GLASS DOORS MAY BE MORE CLOSED THAN THEY APPEAR. Use with adult supervision. Do not eat!
But you're not stuck in the You Ninety States, so hopefully you don't have to put up with quite as much of that...
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 02:51 (UTC)Hope your feet heal quickly, and that door never gives you trouble again!
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 02:59 (UTC)Make sure you do not have any nerve damage causing numbness in any of the toes... if you do, it might be a good idea to have a plastic surgeon line up the broken nerves so the feeling has a chance to return after a few months or years. I had one finger almost cut off with a skill saw and three years later am starting to get significant sense of touch back in it (had some sense in it within weeks but only lately has it been good enough to actually feel what the finger is touching) but I am sure I would have none of that back if it was not fixed by a plastic surgeon. Maybe toes are not as important as fingers for touch but phantom pains are not desireable (like the part of my hand that is permanently numb due to a stab wound that gets the occational phantom pain - I would hate to have a lost limb with such pains!) Watch out for wavy toenails like I got when I was a kid (dropping a glass jar of peanut butter on it weighing about 5 lbs / 3 kg and from a height of about 5 feet / 1.5 m). It got so wavy that the nail fell off after about 2 months (very painfull). I am not sure what to do to prevent that if they go wavy on you though.
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 03:11 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 04:11 (UTC)Hugs and keep those tootsies up!
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 04:42 (UTC)no subject
Date: 13 Jan 2006 05:09 (UTC)Okay you beat my fall.
I am only black and blue.
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 05:26 (UTC)MMMMMMO
Date: 13 Jan 2006 07:05 (UTC)My best wishes that you find some to kiss your boo-boo.
Anne(aseptic)
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Date: 13 Jan 2006 20:51 (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Jan 2006 01:33 (UTC)Allright, time for the bats to come out to take care of you!
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Date: 14 Jan 2006 02:16 (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Jan 2006 02:24 (UTC)Little feathery buggers!