In what can only be described as an epic display of awesomeness (and an event that rivals when I broke my baby toe), I impaled my right foot on a piece of rebar in the street Saturday night.
I was walking home late Saturday with my friend Bernd, a non-PC volunteer in my site, and in the dimly lit streets I managed to miss seeing a piece of concrete lying horizontally with rebar sticking out of it (rebar are the metal rods they use to reinforce concrete). Me, being the fast walker I am, took a step and as I swung my foot forward it contacted perfectly with the end of the rebar and it went straight into the top of my right foot! More shocking than the sudden pain was my realization that my foot was stuck in the rebar! I wasn’t really sure if Bernd had figured out what happened, but I thought to myself “ok, you have to pull your foot off. One… two… three…” Bernd says he still has a perfect image in his mind of me pulling my foot off the rebar.
Then it started bleeding so we started walking up to the centro de salud (health center) but thankfully a taxi drove past and we rode the rest of the way up. The nice ladies at the centro de salud cleaned up my foot, gave me one little stitch and a tetanus shot, and sent me on my way. As he helped me home, Bernd just kept saying “Jenny, that was completely unnecessary.”
I spent all day Sunday lying around in bed because I couldn’t even put weight on my right foot and Monday I headed up to Managua and got checked out and got x-rays. Nothing is broken but I think I was the most interesting thing in the medical office. The doc I was talking to left to get some stuff for me & another one wandered in to take a look and when the first one came back she was like ‘sorry about that, he just wanted to see your foot.’
But not to worry, the pain is lessening, I can move it more, and as long as it doesn’t get infected (I’m taking lots of antibiotics to prevent that) then I should be just fine!
2 comments:
Oh. My. God. That's amazing and a little ridiculous. Jesus! I'm so glad it's healing well! And it sounds like you find it kind of funny too, which I enjoyed. Yikes. If I were there, I guess I'd try to hug it (for healing! :), but then you'd probably swat me away, so I guess an imaginary long-distance hug is better for all concerned.
You gals look to be having entirely too much fun. Good for you!
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