October 16th, 2011 (Day 289)

Today was pretty horrible. Last night I was jumping on the trampoline, like I do daily, and I lost my footing. I kind of slipped and my foot ended up going through the trampoline, between two springs, and landing really roughly (and really wrong!) on the ground. The trampoline is only about a foot or 18 inches off the ground, it isn't one of those huge ones.

Anyway, today I had to get up at 5:30am for work. I was hoping my foot would feel better today but it actually felt worse. I knew I couldn't call in to work because no one was going to answer their phone at 6am on a Sunday morning. Work was just so hard to do, trying to handle all the dogs while limping. I cried a few different times just out of pain and frustration. I tried calling/texting basically all of my co-workers to see if someone could come cover for me so I could go to Urgent Care for an x-ray. No one could. Finally the girl who was relieving me at 2pm said she could come in early. So, around noon I left work and my mom took me to Urgent Care.

We were there for a few hours. The xray came back showing that the metatarsal bone underneath my big toe was fractured/chipped...aka broken. I am not excited to have my first broken bone ever.


The entire xray.


Close up of the piece of bone that fractured off.