The sidewalk jumped up and bit me!

Well today was quite a day and eventful. The day started off simple enough. I was awaken from a rare bit of sleep by a nightmare of losing all of my files on my harddrive, so I had to quickly back them up onto another harddrive before I started off for work this morning at 7:45am.

After my files were backed up I grabbed my Jack Skellington jacket and my backpack and made my way to work, but I was running a bit late. I was walking at a jaunt so I would arrive on time for work and as I was making my way past the student Union and the art building. Suddenly I tripped on a bit of the sidewalk that was sticking up and I did a face plant into the pavement.

I was rather stunned and was amazed that my brain had time to think before I hit the ground "ah crap, this is gonna hurt". Though as luck would have it my Jack jacket that I was holding in my right arm (having not had time to put it on) served as a cushion and saved my hands and face, and my glasses from getting scratched up! Oh Jack you are my hero! But as for my foot and ankle I was not so lucky. I twisted it funny and shooting pains followed. I struggled on the ground for a bit after I had laid there dazed for about 30 seconds and it took me a bit to get up and get my foot working.
It's amazing how fast people will help you in a situation like that !!!NOT!!! There were three people who watched me fall, two in front and one behind. Only after I had pulled myself up from my violent fall did they ask me if I was alright. I thought,
"To heck with them, walk it off!" and limped to work.

My foot was really hurting but the cold morning air seemed to make it feel better, that was until I got out of the cold air. Once I got to work, I took off my shoe and sock to make sure that the foot wasn't swollen, it wasn't but when my boss showed up and I told him what happened, he said that I had to fill out a worker's compensation and accident report. Because I work for the campus and I was on campus at the time of the injury, it counted as an on the job accident. So I thought at first that he was kidding, but sure enough he dragged my butt down to the student health center and got a foot doctor to look at old lefty la foot.

It was kinda cool that because it is on worker comp that I didn't have to pay for the visit and they got me an appointment right away when my boss told them that it was worker's comp related and that I was an employee like any other for the school. Apparently they try to treat you differently when you are a student (meaning they would have charged me for the visit and not let me see a doctor right away). Students in college are often treated like second class citizens you will soon find out, if not already.

The doctor said that I had nervitus in my foot and some other itus (inflammation) in my foot from it being all bent funny when I fell. While the doc told me all this I felt that he was really talking down to me or simplifying everything so I could "understand" but other than that he was a pretty good doctor. He wrapped my foot up in a bandage and told me to keep weight off it for a few days. I could walk on it he said, but not on it for hours. This was bad news because I had to go to the mall that day after work to pick up some stuff. So I went to the thrift shop nearby and bought myself a cane in hopes that it would help keep the weight off it for the long walk through public transportation that I would have to take.

But as it worked out, my cool roommate was nice and drove me to the mall so I didn't have to walk as much, and you know what's cool? When you are walking with a cane...PEOPLE GET OUT OF YOUR WAY! It is so cool even the toughest looking guys, crammed together group of teens and preteens part like the red sea for ya! It was amazing I didn't have to veer around anyone once. And I think I have a new found respect for anyone who has to use a cane all the time. It is actually really hard to learn how to walk with one the right way. Well that is all, the doc says my foot should be find by Monday or Tuesday, so no worries.

I guess I get to play Doctor House for the weekend, heh.