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# Ooops
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2005/10/ooops/
- Published: 2005-10-30T22:00:54.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:16:05.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

Today, my life turned into a bad episode of *Casualty*. I was carrying some broken tiles down the stairs, to load them into the car, and somehow my foot missed the step, and I fell.

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![Swelling foot](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2005/10/footow.jpg?resize=300%2C164 "Swelling foot")

The sensation of your foot bending under you is not a pleasant one.

I eventually managed to crawl back upstairs, and watched my foot swell up over the next few hours. The photo was taken when it just started swelling. It got a lot bigger than that. Eventually, it got too big to ignore, so we caught a taxi to A&E at Lewisham hospital. After an hour of waiting, accompanied by Songs of Praise’s The Nation’s [Top Ten Hymns](http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/songsofpraise/documents/20051030.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) and surrounded by multiple sports injuries, I was seen by a nurse, who sent me straight off for an x-ray. 45 minutes later, I had an attractive photo of the inside of my foot, the reassurance that nothing was broken, orders not to put any weight on the foot for three days, and a snazzy pair of crutches.

And I had to go up the stairs to the flat backwards on my bum. Dignified, this is not. Oh, boy, the next week is going to be fun.