Darkest Before Dawn

I have not been blogging much the past week, writing or reading. The first thing has been that I am back at work after my holiday and I have been quite tired in the evenings. The second reason is that I have been having some toe problems.

On Saturday evening I noticed dark patch on the toe next to the little toe on my left foot, like an idiot I touched it and it started bleeding. I must have cut it at some point, I have no idea when or how. It is a small cut just at the left corner of the nail so it may just have been a sharp nail edge that caused it. It took ages for me to get it to stop bleeding not before I had dripped blood up and down the bathroom carpet. It was fine all of Sunday.

Monday morning being my first day back at work I really needed to have a shower in the morning, so it did and the toe started bleeding again and once again making my bathroom look like a scene from CSI !

On Tuesday morning my toe felt a little sore so I was starting to get worried about it being infected. I took another shower but this time I decided to protect the toe from the water, the only way I could think of doing this was to put a condom over my foot. This worked very well although I had to be careful not to slip, however my strategy to prevent my toe from bleeding came to nought as while I was drying myself I knocked the hairbrush from the shelf above the bathroom sink and it fell straight on to my toe and started it bleeding again!
I got it stopped again but decided to phone my Dr to get an appointment. Now I have never actually met my Dr as I have never been ill enough since I move to Glasgow. I was to be denied the chance as the receptionist said I would have to go to Accident & Emergency, which I did after work. The Dr there cleaned it and told me to keep it clean and if it got worse to come back.

Wednesday my toe was very sore but it had stopped bleeding, I was limping badly this was due to my toe now having blistered due to the rubbing of the plaster against my trainers while walking. I decided not to wear my trainers while I was at work on Thursday and Friday, it was weird walking around the office in my socks but at least I wasn’t in pain.

To add to this lunacy I borrowed a pair of sandals as I was going into town on Thursday evening, not wanting to commit the fashion faux-pa of wearing sock with sandals I went without. This worked in that my toe was okay and I could walk normally, however I got blisters on the soles of both my feet. I really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry!

So here we are at Friday I bet you are glad, if you have made it all this way. I have drained the blister on the toe so it won’t rub as much and and I am hoping it will be better tomorrow.

Kev