Life's Little Surprises

We walked back home from First Friday and as we got into the gate, suddenly J went down.  It's on a hill and she must have stepped on the edge of the concrete step and twisted/slid off.  It hurt to put weight onto her foot, but fortunately we were steps away from the door.  Ice packs and aspirin.  Mid Saturday it was still hurting, but not nearly as bad and it wasn't too swollen or discolored.  Sunday she didn't want to go to breakfast with me at our friends' place down the street - even if I borrowed their car to pick her up.

But at breakfast when I learned one of our friends wanted to go to the urgent care place for her own ailment, I asked if J could come along.  When I saw her foot at the clinic, it was blue enough to suggest she was turning Na'vi.  And the x-ray showed a small crack.

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[Image from Laboratorium.dist,unige.it - link on page to foot, bones lateral]

So, now she has a cool new shoe - and she can walk on the foot without pain, though it doesn't feel right.  She's to rest it as much as possible for the week we have left in Juneau and when we start traveling again in a week and a half, she should be able to walk on it with the new shoe.  We hope.