{"id":11858,"date":"2024-05-18T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T09:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2024-05-18T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T09:27:36","slug":"a-frustrating-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-frustrating-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"A Frustrating Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

There are two rules that we know well.\u00a0The first is that we should take our shoes off before crossing a stream, to avoid getting our shoes wet.\u00a0The second rule is never to cross a stream barefoot because you need to protect your feet. <\/p>\n

Last week I crossed a stream and I broke the second rule of stream crossing. I crossed barefoot. I eventually slipped and smashed my toes into a stone or two which got me to yell in pain, and stumble.<\/p>\n

I thought I was okay, and then I thought I might have really hurt myself, and then we did several kilometres of walking and I felt okay. I never felt like fainting or sleeping. I did feel pain when I pushed on the affected toe.<\/p>\n

I thought “well if I could walk up and down the scree slope I am probably okay”. I drove home.<\/p>\n

For the next two or three days, because of rain, I didn’t bother to go for my daily walk, to give my foot time to recover. By Thursday I was feeling quite good so I went for a walk like an idiot and that’s when it started to feel pain again.
\nYesterday morning it hurt when I got out of bed but not when I was walking around.<\/p>\n

I went for the afternoon walk and that’s when I could feel discomfort. It got so bad that I had a very short walk by my standards before walking home. In the evening I could barely walk.<\/p>\n

It’s a frustrating injury because I believed that I had recovered so I began doing normal things again and that’s when it started to hurt again. I sleep normally so that’s why I believe it is not broken.<\/p>\n

When I have stubbed toes in the past I have felt pain for a few days so the sensation is not new to me. What is new to me is the frustration of knowing that tomorrow I should not go to do a Via Ferrata for two reasons.\u00a0The first is that if I feel fine at first, I may feel pain half way up, but most certainly I will feel pain on the way down.<\/p>\n

If I had not felt better from Monday to Wednesday I would have already been to a doctor, or at least a pharmacist, but because it did improve, that is what has me in limbo now.<\/p>\n

## And Finally<\/p>\n

I was wearing trail glove 7 on this hike, and I took them off the cross the river but now I regret doing that. Trailgloves are fine, when wet, so I could easily have cross the river in them, and allowed them to dry naturally. Trail gloves are light and very easy to dry.<\/p>\n

I would have slipped anyway, but at least my toes would have been shielded. That’s what I get for walking barefoot. I knew better.<\/p>\n

The lesson I learned is that if you go to a river or stream, and you need to cross, it makes sense to keep your shoes on. It takes a day or two for shoes to dry. An injured foot takes longer than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>There are two rules that we know well.\u00a0The first is that we should take our shoes off before crossing a stream, to avoid getting our shoes wet.\u00a0The second rule is never to cross a stream barefoot because you need to protect your feet. Last week I crossed a stream and I broke the second rule […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[819,525,1074,20,25],"tags":[5167,6472,4554,5168,6473,6474,6471],"class_list":["post-11858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental","category-french-walks","category-immersive","category-observation","category-social-networking","tag-barefoot","tag-feet","tag-river","tag-shoes","tag-slipped","tag-stream","tag-toes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11859,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions\/11859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}