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I messed up.
Monday afternoon, I was given a new-to-me pair of aerator shoes. My plan was to wear them whenever I was working out in the yard. In case you aren’t familiar with aerator shoes, they work much like strap on roller skates. The straps across the front and back of your regular shoe hold a platform to which large spikes are attached. There are a dozen spikes on each shoe. They are about 2 inches long and about the diameter of a roofing nail.
When I put them on my shoes, I made sure they were strapped down snugly. I didn’t want to fall down. I took a step with my left foot, then my right, then another with my left foot. When I picked up my right foot, the shoe remained in the dirt. My foot slipped out the front of it, while the back remained attached. It flipped upside down so that the nails were exposed. Unfortunately, my balance was off. In my effort to regain my balance, I stepped on the inverted nail bed. Three of the spikes pierced my shoes, and two of them went into my foot. One of the spikes was about an inch into my foot and the other about half that.
We left the shoe impaled on my foot until it was removed in the ER. (With a puncture wound, the impaled object should not be removed in the field unless it is through the cheek and you can see both sides of the wound.) This image was taken in the ER while waiting.
I’ll leave out the gory details, but after the aerator shoe and my tennis shoe were removed, the wounds were cleaned and I got an updated tetanus shot. They gave me IV antibiotics, and a little bit of narcotics to ease the pain. I had a nice trip to
Anyway, I’ll be off my feet a few days. King J took me to my doctor today for a follow-up. Everything is healing as it should (yay!). I can start walking on it tomorrow night, as long as I keep using my crutches to bear the weight. Within a week, I should be good as new. I have no driving restriction after tomorrow. However, the antibiotics are very strong and I’m sleeping a lot. So, it is unlikely I will choose to drive before I’m done with them, or at least get past the groggy state.
So, I’m not doing a good job keeping up with blog reading. I’ll catch up in the next week or so. For now, I’ll sleep and let my foot heal.
