Post #125412 by TikiGardener on Sat, Nov 13, 2004 4:33 PM

I was wrestling with one of those barrier poles that disappear into the ground. You know, the kind that are in front of areas that are sometimes used as pedestrian only?

Well the ones at my work have a flat rectangular cap on the top of them. This is to give us something to pull them up by when they've been lowered into the ground.

Well the one I was fighting with got out of alignment and jammed. So I went to reposition myself to get a good grip, and stance to be able to safely make it go down.

Well before I was throughrepositioning, it suddenly dropped. And I would have been ok, but the pole spun as it went down. so the plate cap would have missed me if it had gone down without spinning. But it did spin, and didn't miss my foot.

Or rather my big toe. Thankfully my new Doc Martins weren't broken in so the leather was very stiff. Unfortunately they weren't steel toe. If they had been broken in, my toe would have been powder.

As it is, they now tell me it is fractured in FOUR PLACES. Three fractures run the lenght of the toe. One on each side, and one down the middle. The fourth runs across the middle of the bone. So it looks like an H with an extra line down the middle. I think it is in 6 pieces.

Needles to say I'm in a dull agony. I really almost stopped by Tiki Ti on the way home from the emergency room. But alcohol makes your blood thin, thereby making bruises WORSE.

That and the look my wife gave me said it wasn't going to happen.

TG

[ Edited by: tikigardener on 2004-11-13 16:35 ]