I do a lot of walking. I walk great distances to & from work everyday, plus I'm constantly pacing back & forth in my spare time, trying to think of something that justifies the purpose of this damn website (to no avail, might I add...). I've estimated that I do atleast 2 hours of 'solid' (non-stop) walking every day, plus I'm always on my feet at work moving stuff around or otherwise trying to look busy. *ahem*
Despite this, and the fact that I am a fast walker, I've got the most comfortable pair of Nikes in the world (they feel like I'm wearing slippers!) so all this walking hasn't been a problem.
Until last week, that is...
On the Wednesday of last week, I felt a bit of pain in my right foot after walking to work. I figured it was just a small rock or pebble or something wedged in my shoes, but I couldn't see anything there so I continued the day's mundane duties with a small amount of discomfort. The trend continued in the following days, only leading up to the weekend my foot began to get quite swollen in size and started to bruise.
Yesterday morning I decided to go to the hospital because I could actually feel something jutting out the top of my foot, I thought it might be a broken bone or something. It was painful to put any sort of pressure on my foot, let alone walk on it.
The doctor's initial thoughts after looking at my foot was that I had broken (or had stress fractured) my 2nd/3rd metatarsal, but it took three x-rays to confirm that I did not have any broken bones, much to the doctor's (and my) surprise.
Instead of the bones being damaged, they say it must've been soft tissue damage near the metatarsal pads (the balls of your feet), which causes an amount of strain to be put on bones that normally wouldn't handle such weight.
So now I've got a few days off work but I'm kinda bummed because I was hoping for something a bit more dramatic than tissue damage. I didn't even hurt myself by doing something stupid, just by doing lots & lots of walking... God damn it.
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