Fail Foot

It’s really quite disheartening to write that I have suffered a setback in the running program.

On Friday morning, whilst at work, at our Hertford unit I took a step on the stairwell there the wrong way and twisted my ankle.

The ankle is fine but the right side of my right foot made a gnarly scrunch sound as I fell to the ground.

I pretty much spent the rest of the day hobbling around working on the new IP Office phone installation that was going in there that day.

At close of day I had to make the journey home which actually went ok.  I am finding now that problems only arise when pressure is applied to the centre of the foot primarily so the act of pressing peddles in the car wasn’t so bad.  Just so long as it was not too much pressure.

I made it home safely, no hard breaking was required on route.  Grabbed a walking cane and headed off to my local A&E.

After the obligatory 4 hour wait and a couple of x-rays later I was told by the doctor that I had a small fracture in the cubic bone of my right foot.

They supplied me with a couple of crutches and I had to book in for another appointment to see the fracture clinic during the next week.

So here I now sit playing internet spaceships and making the occasional struggle downstairs for a mug of tea.

I hope to be back up on my two feet soon so I can get back to work in the field and my running again.

Walking is possible but I seemed to have a habit of stumbling into a hopping motion right now.

To think just two days prior I was scaling fifty foot water silos with ease.