Pearls of Wisdom and Foolish Mutterings

On Ode to Toes

Aaaarrrrggghhhh!!! I broke my... **glances up to check rating-- okay, we're good**...as I was saying, I broke my damn toe yesterday. OWWWWW! Over the years, the only bones I have ever broken have been toe bones. And I guess if you have to break a bone, the toe bone is probably the one to shoot for. Yeah, it can be painful - what am I saying? It IS painful, but probably one of the least painful breaks you can have. Of course, I don't know that from personal experience since I seem to have an affinity for breaking only toe bones.

The strange thing about it is which toe I broke yesterday. It's the toe next to my big toe on my left foot. Not one that is normally a candidate for breaking, given the fact that it's situated in a spot that usually offers protection from being stubbed or from hanging on pieces of furniture as you walk by. The other strange this is that I broke it by tripping over a steel-toe boot. How's that for irony?

This morning my toe is so purple and swollen that I had to take off the toe rings I always wear on that toe. It looked like I had slept with a rubber band wrapped tightly around that toe.

When I told my son how I broke my toe, he suggested that considering the sheer number of times I have broken one or more toes, maybe I should be wearing steel boots instead of kicking them. Well, yeah, maybe, but I would have to actually wear them instead of going barefoot all the time. So that's probably not a plausible solution for me.

Does anyone know of any good toe-strengthening exercises?

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