And now I have 203 bones...

So I broke my foot last week. Dumb. Just walking down the street and saw a snowman…thought it would be a fun idea to kick it. Bad idea. Turns out it wasn’t actually a snowman but an ice-sculpture that someone had sprinkled snow over. Karma, eh? So I dislocated my big toe and broke two small bones in my foot. Resetting my toe was (really) fucking painful, but after that I figured it was NBD; I’ve broken enough bones before and the healing part was never an issue.

Turns out that was incorrect as well. I went back to the VA today to get my foot checked on and…ouch.

Below is a pic of the two sesamoid bones in your foot. They are both encased inside a tendon (the tendon that attaches your big toe to the rest of the major bones in your foot). Turns out that I cracked the outermost one and shattered the inner one (into like six pieces). It won’t heal itself naturally and the pieces are too small for them to try and fuse it back together, so they are going to go in and surgically removed all fragments of the bone entirely. They have to go inside the tendon to dig the pieces out, so it should be a whole lotta fun…I’m glad they are giving me a general anesthetic.


This is a pretty intense surgery, I guess. It’s called “plantar reconstructive surgery” because it repairs the same area that’s effected by Plantar Fasciitis and Turf Toe. Apparently that particular tendon joins up with several ligaments and a nerve cluster at the exact location of those two bones, and the whole process is intertwined pretty intensely. So anyways, surgery is scheduled for 11:30am tomorrow and I’ll be on bed-rest Thursday. 5-6 weeks in an aircast/crutches is what they are telling me but I’m a fast healer, so I’m thinking 4 weeks. Good stuff, huh?