AH...I have been limping around for several weeks because of a glass splinter right in the middle of my right heel pad. (Broke a bowl in the kitchen, didn't sweep up enough, walk around barefoot.) Some times it would really hurt and then other times it didn't really bother me. I kept soaking it in Epsom salts and Mike would poke at it. Finally, I decided I'd have to call the doctor. It was so painful last night that I filled up my foot soaking bin before I turned on the coffee this morning--that's how dire the situation had become. Anyway, I soaked it and put tape on while I did some housework. Then I decided to take a shower before making my various phone calls. That's when I noticed the little shard of glass sticking out of the bottom of my foot. Dr. Mike was able to pull it right out with his medical instruments. What a relief!!!
On September 29, I had the closing on my condo. Everything that was not going to the buyers was out and packed in the ABF moving truck which had by the been taken over to the storage units. Don thought it would take him until Wednesday to finish packing the truck with the help of his son. It took him until late Thursday with Chris' help and mine. Kevin was supposed to help load as well but he was in a mountain bike accident and wrecked his shoulder the week before. That added driving him to doctor appointments to my to do list and dong some shopping for him plus jobs around the house that might need two functioning upper limbs. We stayed with Kevin on Friday night after the closing and then had a suite in an extended stay place for the coming week. This was the worst possible time to have to get a room because the prices balloon during leaf peeping season if you can even find a room at all. But it was close to the storage units where we were working and it was dog friendly. We ju
Aren't you glad it didn't come out as you were waiting in the examination room for the doctor?
ReplyDeleteI took a couple of stitches out once with an exacto knife, eyebrow pluckers and a magnifying glass. The HMO was giving me the runaround over who was to take out the two or three tiny stitches on my forearm near my elbow. I did it myself and solved the stupid problem.
ReplyDeleteAll you had to do was threaten it with a doctor and it quit hiding. Now you can put coffee back on the top your first thing to do in the AM list. Dr. Mike deserves extra pie.
ReplyDeleteOuch! Glad you got it out. Something similar happened to me this summer. Some foreign object got in my foot, and I didn't even know it. Finally one day I soaked my foot. When I took it out, you could see a little puncture hole where whatever it was worked its way out by itself.
ReplyDeleteGlad that worked out so well. You're tougher than me. I couldn't have stood it that long.
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