I believe I have found the upper end of the word "boo-boo"

[jducoeur]

My body is prone to strange ailments. Chest pains, foot pains, stomach pains -- all of these hit from time to time, and aggravate largely due to their mysterious nature. This is *not* one of those.

Summary: Bookcase. Foot. Bam. It's truly remarkable how much blood can come out of the little toe when you split the nail diagonally.

Time for a bunch of ibuprofen, and thence bed...

Comments

[jimpage363.livejournal.com]

OUCH, man. My sincere sympathies. It is astonishing how much one relatively minnor part of your body can hurt when it's been outraged, isn't it?

[jducoeur]

Yaas, although I think this one is going to be more inconvenience than pain, knock on wood. After being loosely bandaged overnight, the pain is pretty manageable. But I suspect I'm going to have to keep it bandaged and change the dressing daily until the nail grows out, which is going to take a while...