Two weeks ago, on a friday, I went kickboxing and continued to spar with some guys there after the class was over.
I told one of them casually that more or less, I'm not afraid of being punched. What I was afraid of, was concussions, broken bones, or missing teeth. Then I proceeded to kick his knee with my foot (AGAIN, see previous post) during sparring and stopped the match from the pain. I asked if he was okay since it hurt me so much. He was fine, so I continued to spar with him.
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Then I sparred with another guy, but ended the match quickly because I realized I couldn't focus on much else other than my foot. I figured I sprained it.
The instructor came to check on me and why I was leaving so soon and I told him it was nothing, that I kicked a knee, but can still move my toes. I wiggled my toes at him for proof!
He seemed concerned but waved it off.
I couldn't put my aching foot in my shoe, so I drove home bare footed. It really hurt to drive back home, seeing it was my driving foot that hurt me so much. but there was no time to complain! Once I reached home, I threw some ice on it while heating the oven and preparing the food since the boys were coming over any minute now.
There was no time for pain, I quickly showered and crossed heat and cold on my foot. I didn't feel anything when the boys came, I was limping, sure, but it certainly didn't hurt near as much as my severe period cramps. When I bumped my foot on the stairs, I did find myself on my hands and knees from the pain which alarmed one of the boys a bit, but I again, quickly shook it off. I drove them home very carefully.
The next day (day 2), I woke up in pain at 7 am from my foot. It was very swollen, red, and quite inflamed. I continued to ice it, but the ice burned my foot so I just elevated it, and it seemed to work. Later that day I went to my friend's house. I limped all the way there, since I couldn't weight bare on that foot at all. I genuinely considered crutches. The boys, and my friend told me to get it x-rayed. By then, I started taping the pain with sports tape. I called 811, an RN picked up and told me to get it X-rayed ASAP.
I went to a walk-in clinic on Monday and X-rayed my foot on Tuesday (day 5).
The results should be given to my family doctor and given to me within 24 hours.
I had to call my doctor to get the results, it was broken.
"undisplaced avulsion fracture" of the 1st proximal phalange of the right foot. I broke my toe!
I won't get into explaining what that all means, but the doctor told me to continue what I was doing, taping, icing, and reducing weight baring on it.
She told me to take pain killers and wear a boot if the pain is too severe, but I couldn't feel any pain by then. Sure, it hurts when I put weight on it, but I just walked on the blade of my foot and off loaded my toe. Plus, I found this sleeve to put on it to cushion my steps in my placement.
I can't believe my cramps hurt more than this, but possibly due to decrease of nerves there? who knows.
I am currently still hunting down my X-rays. Both my doctor and the walk-in don't have my X-rays! I'm determined to see it for myself, or at least, see the follow up X-ray!
Peace,
M.D.
