Any one ever drop something really heavy on their foot?

I had a laptop computer fall off a shelf about 8 feet high and land on my big toe. It broke the nail and turned black the next day. Hurt like a mofo!! Two months later my toe nail came off. I was running in pain for about two weeks until it started to heal.

I think you win.

Not as heavy as a manhole cover, but I did once drop a bowling ball on my foot the day before the Olympic Trials.

malmo wrote:

I think you win.

Not as heavy as a manhole cover, but I did once drop a bowling ball on my foot the day before the Olympic Trials.

Likely story.

Yeah Right wrote:

Likely story.

Grow up kid.

I dropped a brick on my toe while wearing sandals a few years ago. It didn't break the toenail, which caused it's own set of problems. The pressure from the blood under the toenail made it so painful that I finally had to heat up a pin and drill a hole in the toenail to relieve the pressure. I couldn't run at all for a week, but after that I was able to jump right back and run normally. You don't really have to ease back into it after an injury like this. I did lose the toenail about a month later.

Those first two days were excruciating though.

A few days after I accepted a full scholarship for running at a very prestigious and expensive D1 school, my little brother came in while I was napping on the couch and slammed my foot with a rubber mallet.

I woke up to see my dad running up to slap the shit out of my brother, telling him, "Are you crazy? Your brother's legs are like gold for this family. What have you ever done you little piece of trash."

I felt bad for my brother. He is into drugs now. I wonder why.

I was working in stock at a store about 5 years ago, and a dolly loaded with a boxed up dining room table slipped off its stand and landed right on my pinky toe. It swelled up quite a bit and I didn't run for a week, but after that I just sucked it up and ran in a bit of pain for the next 5-6 weeks. I'm pretty sure it was broken.

I had a friend launch a bowling ball into my foot when I was being an idiot and pretending like I was going to trip him. It hyper-extended my arch and I couldn't run for 3 weeks. I still feel it sometimes today. Pretty awesome.

I didn't drop anything on my foot, but one day I was opening the gate to my driveway so my dad could drive through, and he drove through before I could get out of the way. He drove right over my foot with a station wagon.

It didn't hurt at all at first, but the next day it was really sore all over, red, and kind of swollen.

The day after that it was fine again.

Wierd.

in the weight room once i forgot that my skinny ass decided to add extra 5 lb weights to the bench that day. i was pulling off the 45 lb'er and the 5 lb dropped straight down and landed on the knuckle of my big toe.

i ended up with a severed nerve and a small fracture on the joint. that sucked.

geronimo wrote:

I didn't drop anything on my foot, but one day I was opening the gate to my driveway so my dad could drive through, and he drove through before I could get out of the way. He drove right over my foot with a station wagon.

It didn't hurt at all at first, but the next day it was really sore all over, red, and kind of swollen.

The day after that it was fine again.

Wierd.

That happened to me once. I was loading a delivery van and it rolled over my foot. An hour later the pain went away and I ran a summer 5,000 that evening as if nothing happened

this guy wrote:

in the weight room once i forgot that my skinny ass decided to add extra 5 lb weights to the bench that day. i was pulling off the 45 lb'er and the 5 lb dropped straight down and landed on the knuckle of my big toe.

i ended up with a severed nerve and a small fracture on the joint. that sucked.

How long did you have to wait to run on a fractured toe, I'm thinking mine may be pretty bad, too bad I can't post a picture.

chucko wrote: How long did you have to wait to run on a fractured toe, I'm thinking mine may be pretty bad, too bad I can't post a picture.

I can't speak for a fractured toe, but I started running 3.5 weeks after getting a spiral fracture in the outermost metatarsal on my right foot (ball hockey accident). It was still a little tender, and I favoured it (and only ran on smooth, even surfaces), but it healed fine after that.

Back when I was lifeguarding (early 90s) I was once brought in as a ringer for a big volleyball match my body Zack needed to win so he could purchase a car from his boss. But, the day before the match his screw up friend, Samuel, dropped a damn water jug on my foot. It broke my foot and I was sidelined. Zack and his gang ended stepping up and winning the match. The last point Zack sent a serve so high I though it would never come down. The words, "This one's for the car!" are forever cemented in my memory.

Dropped a brand new, still in the freekin box new, TV on my foot, broke both!

Horrible grammar, but nice Saved by the Bell reference.

1959, Herb Elliott dropped a piano on his foot while moving it. Set a world record at the Olympics 9 months later.