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Old 05-30-2007, 11:53 AM
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Default Wow...

Yes, David, it was about this time of year too.

It was a huge boulder I was putting back into our rock wall. It was balanced
on the edge of the wall driveway junction which has a 6in little curb, and I misjudged its' center of gravity, and it just rolled off.

It rolled off onto my foot and hit mostly the big toe. I had hard shoes on, luckily..old leather trainers I use in the garden.

I recall sitting there on that milk crate...and saying boy is this bad...and it took about 5 sec for the pain to reach my brain! Fortunately the foot itself was spared...I had two hairline fractures in the toe, and the podiatrist gave me a special shoe to wear. I used magnets and NSAIDs and ice for the pain, and the toe turned black underneath, but not on top (I guess the ice blocked that).
He told me the nail would probably be spared...but it fell off during our vacation.

The boulder was granite and about 15 in long and 12 inch high. My son was helping me since my hubby can't stand cement work...I always do that here.
So my son jumped quickly and grabbed the rock...and I was spared further damage.

Considering all the rock work we do here and on vacation, I guess I was lucky this was the first major accident with them! This was no where near the top of the foot where I get the shocking feelings when I tap those nerves. This was out and out agony.....
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