Injuries, injuries, injuries. sigh. (original) (raw)
necama 😡aggravated
April 29 2005, 23:43
Listens: Chris Thile - Waltz for Dewayne Pomeroy
Injuries happen. It's something you accept when you step on the mat. I just wish I understood what happened last Thursday.
I was taking ukemi for Teresa, who is preparing for her nidan exam in June. The basic scenario was defense from five attackers. She entered in with a wonderful iriminage -- think about me getting a face full of open hand that makes me fall backwards -- and my foot got caught in between two mats. So I fell down, and folded my foot between the first and second metatarsel. I didn't think much about it at the time.
Then Friday rolled around, and my foot hurt like a son-of-a-bitch. So I went to student health. They took xrays, and told me that I hadn't broken a toe, but that I had what looked like arthritis around the big toe on my right foot.
So I got an appointment to see a podiatrist, and sucked down pain pills for the weekend. On Monday, I saw the podiatrist, and he told me that my right foot was basically crushed about 15 years ago, and at some point, I will need to have surgery to correct the problem -- basically, somebody needs to remove about a quarter inch of bone from the first metatarsel, and I had only sprained my foot in the already injured area.
So now, I'm off the mat for learning. I can still teach and assistant teach -- provided I limit the type and numer of falls -- but I cannot do the adult class for at least another week.