So 6 weeks ago a large jar of chutney fell from the top of my fridge and landed on my toe...

[Hassled]

..and it hurt more than childbirth.
It's no longer swollen and blue, but still throbs a bit in the evenings. When I feel it, it's sort of flaccid and wibbly - no rigidity, IYSWIM. My question is - is it worth seeing the GP about? Would they actually do anything about a broken toe, or will it just heal eventually? It's the one next to my big toe, if that's of any relevance.

PS - The chutney was homemade. Can I get an award for ponciest domestic accident ever?

piff, could you please elaborate on "never to strap the toes next to the big or little toe together..."?

Does that mean you shouldn't strap toe 2 to toe 1 or toe 4 to toe 5? Or that you shouldn't strap toe 2 to toe 3, or toe 4 to toe 3?

(Only I have strapped toe 4 to toe 5 - or possibly vv, I can't remember now - anyway I have strapped the 2 of them together, and that was OK! )

Caught my little toe on the leg of the bed when I was putting washing away, of all the mundane things. Ridiculously painful at the time, but I solved the problem by drinking a LOT of wine with DP that night. The following morning, woke up to find it the size of a carrot (well, a short carrot - talking girth not length) and my foot blue halfway to my heel. Hobbled to hospital, and sure enough it was snapped in two (the x-ray looked like the one of Colin Cucumber from the Garden Gang's leg when he breaks it - anyone with me) but the doc said there was nothing to be done but to buddy strap. My word it hurt for a few weeks, though ...

oh good one, kerrys. Yes, wear steel-capped boots and sod the cream carpet.

elaborate ok
if the little toe is broken you can strap it to the next toe
However of the 4th toe is broken, you should not strap it to the little toe, but to the middle toe, same for toe next to big toe.
See clear as mud right?
No idea of the logic.

Ah, OK - thanks piff

I suppose that makes sense actually - the extremity toes, if you strapped the neighbouring one to them, might pull them out of line if you persisted in going around barefoot (as one does )

Strapping the middle ones to each other keeps them out of trouble.

i broke my little toe while wearing flip flops behind the bar of a v cool beach bar in Eivissa. broke it on the v sensible boot of a co-worker, the bastard.
really realy hurts, doesnt it?

a few years earlier, i broke the toe nest to the big toe when the man attacking me in the street stood on it. i didnt even notice till about a week later when the adrenaline from my near-murder experience died off a little. its been slightly odd shaped ever since, but it makes a fine ridge for my wee silver toe ring to sit in.

piffle, ouch.

I think the big toe is for balance and the little toe for direction - or the other way around ( both skills elude me most days ) that could be the basis for it perhaps

CAn I freak y'all out some more and say that when I woke up from the coma, they had set my legs incorrectly and I had to have them rebroken...
And a I had been in a coma I could not have a general anaesthetic...

Nice huh

OK, I would like to rephrase my OP. It hurt more than childbirth but considerably less than Piffle's re-breaking of her legs. Oh Dear God, as DS3 likes to say.

piffle, my mouth is literally hanging open at your last post, and has been for some time. its getting quite dry in there....

BLOODY hell woman. you are NAILS

hassled, since finding mn I realise I am not poncy at all.

piffle - you scare me. dd1 is mad on horses and they just make me very very nervous. Might get that body protector for christmas. And just don't tell me how useless they are.

And I was only 15...
There is a photo of me sitting on my pony with two legs in casts, a neck brace and one arm cast....
I was NUTS

no body protectors in my day...

roflrofl at you sitting on a pony in that state

Piffle . And I thought my story about dropping a paint tin on my toe was impressive.

All I can think these days, is my poor poor mother...

sorry for crashing your thread hassled

I t\ke it you madde a full recovery?

nah, she does all her mnetting flat on her back with a stick in her mouth for her keyboard

rofl @ wendy

who'd'a thought this would turn out so darn funny

all while sitting on a pony

PMSl actually I went on to model as it turned out, the casts so petrified my legs, made em so skinny that I was in demand for commercials for....
red tights/pantyhose....
see it gets better....