Comments on: Inattention can cost you. Ask me how I know.

By: Artemis3044

Artemis3044 — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:53:42 +0000

Buy a bag of frozen peas, on sale of course. These are used for any joints or swellings by my tennis group, refreeze nicely, and are a joke that it’s “too the bag of peas” for the rest of the day. The bag will wrap around about any joint and can be taped in place. I also rebuke the harming spirit and cast it into the lake of fire. That is where inattention needs to go.

By: Carnival of Money Stories #55

Carnival of Money Stories #55 — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:57:07 +0000

[...] Freedman from Surviving and Thriving writes: Inattention Can Cost You. Ask Me How I Know. Ouch! So vividly written you can feel the pain…in the foot and the [...]

By: Funny about Money

Funny about Money — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:01:46 +0000

Ouch! In the toe & the pocketbook.

One way to deal with the plantar f. when your toe is not cooperating with your shoes is to look for open-toed clog-style sandals — they have nice arch support a little lift in the heel (which my doc’ said was necessary for p.f. and the accompanying Achilles tendonitis…the only time he recommends heels!). Dansko makes some like that. You can get the original Danskos, which were made by Sanitas, as seconds at a site called Footprints, much discounted.

By: Donna Freedman

Donna Freedman — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:04:16 +0000

I thought it was the trach scar that was caused by the bullet you took for the president?

By: Abigail

Abigail — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:00:28 +0000

Aha! I knew I inherited my klutziness from you! Remember when I tripped (over something I had JUST MOVED) and fell into the corner of the wall. I had a bump on my jawbone for days!

Or when I slipped getting into the tub and banged my shin so hard that it hurt to walk for several days?

I blame you.

PS. Exercise is clearly a plot concocted by the government to kill off enough people that Social Security remains solvent.

PPS. Don’t forget you also advised me to say the feeding tube scar was actually from when I took a bullet for the president.

By: Donna Freedman

Donna Freedman — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:38:19 +0000

@Catseye: Yowza! I feel a lot better about my little problem.
Thanks for stopping by — and please, please, be careful where you step.

By: unavocis

unavocis — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:35:01 +0000

Oh, Donna. Welcome to my world. The difference? I have long toes, so even such simple, NORMAL acts as climbing out of the shower can be extremely dangerous.
Seriously: I break or jam a toe at least once or twice a year. I’m used to it. I’ve done this since I was 16. (I’m not over 30.)
I completely understand “paying attention,” but it doesn’t seem to matter to me. I’ve broken toes by tripping over a phone cord, kicking a family member (I was a teenager and said family member has since forgiven me), and by slipping (read: doing the splits) on wet linoleum.
Hope you are well soon!

By: Catseye

Catseye — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:06:34 +0000

Twelve years ago, I got up to go to my kitchen and fell onto my loveseat in excrutiating pain. My left little toe was broken so badly, it was at a 90 degree angle from my foot. I’d banged it against my metal-framed coffee table leg. Yes, I replaced the coffee table.
I drove myself to the hospital, grateful that my right foot was uninjured. I had to wait 90 minutes for a 0rthopedic surgeon who’d been called to the hospital because someone had just been in a horrific car accident. He rushed into the room I’d been placed in, grabbed my foot and began setting my toe. I guess my blood-curdling shreiks were distracting him, so he grabbed a syringe of something very numbing and injected my foot before continuing with putting my toe back into position. No problems with it since then. He wasn’t the most sensitive doctor I’ve ever met, but Thank God, he did know what he was doing!

By: bashtree

bashtree — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:27:40 +0000

My initial reaction to the ‘what might have been’ broken ankle scenario: the taxi cab ride came at the top of the list of expenses, after the hospital stuff? Funny funny. Then again, ambulance rides are NOT cheap. I had one of those before. Good lord.

By: Donna Freedman

Donna Freedman — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:27:09 +0000

@Kymm: The phone has a lot to “answer” for? Welcome, fellow punster!