Approximately a year and a half ago I injured my foot.  Instead of going to my doctor sooner rather later, I waited until I barely could walk. She refered me to another doctor for whom I waited two weeks for an appointment. 

During that interim time, I reached the point where hopping wasn’t appealing, and walking was really painful - and somewhere got the bright idea of using athletic tape to tape my foot to be able to walk again. 

Or, that was the plan.  Apparently there is a trick to using athletic tape successfully which I still haven’t learned.  The end result was my original injury eventually got better, but I caused a secondary injury which still lingered a year and a half later and required surgery to improve.

So – on Thursday I spent a few hours at Swedish Hospital and did same day surgery thing – and so far, not so bad. 

I’ve had  broken toes which hurt more than than this does, although I’ve already pushed too hard several times, once when I slipped in the shower while trying very very hard to keep my bandaged right foot safely outside the tub/sliding glass shower door.  I landed pretty hard on my bad foot but eventually the pain subsided (thank goodness for Tylenol 3’s).  

Even so, as a “one off” that was significantly less painful than the 10 or more times a day one my dogs – the largest one, Geordi, a golden retreiver/lab mix – manages to land all of his 68 pounds exactly on my 10 stitches.  Tylenol 4’s, anyone?

I wasn’t supposed to touch the bandage until this coming Thursday but curiousity got the better of me, plus I wanted to wear shoes again.  So - today I rewrapped it, then carefully anchored the bandage in place with a piece of athletic tape which should hold until I see my doctor again this Friday.

Now that I’m back to wearing Tevas I almost walk normally again.  I’m particularly proud I talked myself out of cutting the back yard grass today – no matter how gorgeous the weather, I realized nothing good for my foot would result from doing that today.

Supposedly three weeks from now I’ll be back on my eliptical trainer and all will be good again.

Even so – check back here in a year and half or so to find out what new havoc I and the athletic tape will have caused this time… ;-)