A victim of my own stupidity

This is the "bad" foot. On Friday I got our new tv, but unfortunately the old tv hadn't sold yet so I had to move it off the tv stand by myself. This is the consequence of not being married or in a relationship, you have no man or man friends around to help you move heavy objects. Like a dumbass I thought I could move the tv on my own. It's a 32 inch Sony Trinitron and weighs 165lbs.

I thought if I could just ease it down from the entertainment stand and onto the floor that I could scootch it into the spare room. Well I was somewhat correct in my assumption. I got it down off the entertainment center, but as I was easing it on down to the carpet it sort of ... fell on my foot. That's right. 165lb tv on my foot.

At first I didn't think it was that bad, it really didn't hurt much and it didn't seem like it had come down that hard on my foot. But once I had gotten my foot out from underneath the tv I knew it was pretty bad. I watched as my foot started to swell and bruise right before my eyes.

Obviously it was very painful and it's been very difficult to walk, and of course my foot is all sorts of pretty colors right now. I went the whole weekend before finally going to the hospital on Monday and having x-rays done. Turns out I broke my 4th toe, which I already figured I had. But nothing else is broken thankfully, it could have been much worse. All in all I'm banged up but it will heal in a couple weeks. So I'm wearing a soft cast on my foot and on crutches as I need them, motrin and ice and rest. That last one is really hard when you have a 2 1/2 year old running around trying to destroy your house and your sanity. (she's really succeeding on that last one lately).

I've learned that most of the time I am entirely too independent for my own good. I think I'm superwoman and I can develop a strategy to accomplish anything I want. Which more often than not leads to some type of injury. Mothers day and our trip to Omaha are just around the corner though, so with a little luck I'll be all healed up soon.