Toe Struggles Chapter 1

Although there are many stories which preceed this story, this is the most recent of my amazing adventures. For days when my life is uneventful, I may backtrack to a previous story which comes to mind, but for now, this happened a few days ago.

Toe Struggles

We'll start about a week ago. I went to Jamestown Beach to study Computer Science. I know, study at the beach? wtf. Anyway, I went though the land of trees which is this area of the beach heavily burdened by fallen trees. Like, 100 year old trees forming magestic fences due to erosion. You can't walk around them via water because there is glass and stones and hidden logs. So to venture through the land of the trees, you must climb under, over, and around them. Now I can't climb up a tree but I can sure climb over one. All was well and I nestled into a nice spot where I could study. Then i got dehydrated and ventured back to my car for a bottle of water I just happened to have (let's just say I drank wayy to much the night before and totally didn't sleep due to fun times). So..I ventured back over and got stabbed in the leg by a branch. It was just a bad scrach I was fine. I went back to studying and after about an hour and a half decided I wanted to venture to Sno-To-Go. So I packed up my stuff and began the treck over, under, and around the trees. As I was nearing the clearing (woah that rhymes) I jumped over a tree and landed on a root sticking up. It was a root or a really sharp branch. Totally stabbed my foot to the point where it became a bloody mess. I tried pourin the bottled water over it to clean it out but I couldn't stop bleeding. Not wanting to get sand it it, and not having anything to bandage with, I hobbled back to my car. In my car I couldn't find A SINGLE NAPKIN inside. So I found a piece of paper, sloppily wrapped my very bloody toe, and decided I should seek immediate medical attention. It felt like something was stuck in my toe.

So I pulled out of the parking lot and started heading back to campus when a park ranger tells me to pull over. I thought there was some sort of roadblock or something. So I pull over and he says "Lisence and registration please." I'm immediatly like "oh shit." So i hand it to him and he brings it to my attention that I am going 48 in a 35. Now, I'm not a habitual speeder, never had a ticket in my life, and didn't even realize I was speeding. So I looked him in the eye and said "Sir, I'm not trying to make excuses but i damaged my toe really badly and I'm trying to seek medical attention. I can't stop bleeding, it hurts like hell, its my acceleration foot and I know I need to get help." He immediatly switches gears and directs me behind his car where he bandges my foot for me. God Bless him. He hands me back my goods and reminds me once again that the speed goes down to 35. I tell him I am aware of this, apologize, and then i go seek medical attention.

Turns out the toe got me out of a ticket. Bloody mess and all. It ended up not being infected, just severly cut. So I survived.

Toe Struggles Part 2

Yesterday I had a few more things to move to Landrum attic for the summer. Thank God for Sarah because my car was very very loaded and there was no way in hell I was going to fit my summer stuff in there. So Sarah drove me to Landrum and helped me load all my crap up to the attic. Sure enough while carrying three boxes I tripped over a piece of really sharp, cut metal. Yes. On the same freaking toe as my incident a week ago. I just bore through the pain because what can you do. There was work to be done and I wasn't going to stop for a little cut.

Little cut my ass. There was my poor toe bleeding all over the place again. I got Sarah to drive me to the Health Center to get it properly cleaned out because after the last time I didn't want to risk infection. I hobbled into the Health Center and they hooked me up with an Iodine foot bath, sterile strips, a bandaid, and a toe sock bandage. FOR FREE! Fortuantly, because I didn't have anything on me.

So my toe has been through a lot. The newest cut looks like an "S" and it made me want to carve some other cool designs in my other toes but I'm not that sick.

It is healing nicely and hates me. It may be seeking vengence as I write this because I've had feverish symptoms the past two days. Night sweats, chills, an actual fever which I slept off, loss of appetite, sore throat...the works. And my gums are swollen too, wonder what that is all about. I'm just gonna take some meds and ride it out to see what happens. No need to worry about it yet.

So that concludes the first chapter of my storybook. I hope you enjoyed this wonderful story. I will be back next time with even more to share. Caio