Stupidity

Doing the dishes doesn't usually involve being stupid. However, I managed to do just that. While doing dishes this morning, I set a pan to soak. No biggee. However, this is a HEAVY stainless steel 12" diameter frying pan. I then set it on the counter and stacked a few more items on top of that. Did a bunch of dishes. Still had more to do, but I went to work on other stuff to allow the ones I did to dry.

Fast forward a few hours. I put the dishes away I washed earlier. I reached to close the dish cabinet, and managed to knock the stack I created earlier off the counter. Yeah, the one with the frying pan full of water. It all landed squarely on my foot, right at the base of my big toe. OUCH! It bruised instantly, reminding me of the encounter I had with a brake rotor on my big toe (other foot) over 10 years ago. In that one, I had a nasty fracture (The doc didn't believe it at first, since the big toe has a THICK bone to it). It healed eventually. The whole thing hitting my foot and the floor eventually made a very loud noise.

I just stood there and Diana yelled if I was ok. I told her I wasn't sure. She came out, and I warned her it was wet all over there (including my pants that got splashed back on). I also told her I wasn't sure if a glass bowl was broken or not, since I knew she was also barefoot like I was. I grabbed some frozen corn for an ice pack, and made it over to the living room and iced it for a while. Finally called to get an x-ray to rule out a fracture.

A little over 2 hours later, I got the news... NO FRACTURE! Just a nasty bruise, thankfully. Still doesn't diminish how much it hurts, but at least it isn't broken. Thank God! With a conference to go to next week, and some EMS work later this week, I couldn't afford to have a broken foot. So, I managed to do something very stupid, and got lucky.

Don't do what I did kiddies. Make sure if you stack stuff up, it won't bite you back for not being careful.