And honestly, I think my toe hurts more now than it did. Ah, and a little tip I thought I'd share: If you have a broken toe, do not reach for anything up above you. Know how we reach things? By standing on tippy-toe. This is a very automatic response and one that I think I might have remembered not to do if it wasn't such an easy thing to do without thinking about it.
Know what also uses one's toes? Scooting around in a chair. I really thought I was on to something on Friday. I had been on my foot way too much Thursday (big surprise, I know) so I thought I would help my foot by restricting myself to a day of sewing. That's sitting, right?
Sort of.
Turns out, there's a lot of moving around when sewing, or at least when I do it. THEN I had the embroidery machine and a second sewing machine going, and just wheeled my chair back and forth between them. Had I propelled myself using my hands, this might have been okay, but if you were sitting in a wheeled chair & wanted to move about two feet forward, what would you do? Perhaps reach out with your feet and pull yourself forward that way? Yeah--turns out that would also involve one's toes. Didn't think about that part. So today my poor foot and I are going to park in one place (upstairs because carpet is so much easier than hardwood floors) and write Christmas cards. That's it. I'm not baking cookies (yesterday), moving around the sewing room (Friday), running errands (Thursday), attending any parties (Tuesday) or smacking my toe with the cane Andy made me (Wednesday).
Hm, maybe it's NOT so surprising that my toe is still hurting after all.....
2 comments:
Ooops! I do hope that the toe settles down soon. It is certainly surprising to realise just how much we rely on our toes to help us move around.
Knitting...surely you can knit without using your toes?
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