What Goes Around

A few months back everyone may remember having a laugh at my wife's expense due to her broken foot.  Well, Earl warned me about karma and I didn't listen. 

July is parents get free classes month at Ashli's Tae Kwon Do(TKD) school.  So I partook of the offer, not being able to resist the word free.  Class was going great until we got to crecent kicks.  *Crecent Kick- Sweeping the leg up in an arch like motion and striking with the outside of the foot.*  We were working on bringing it almost straight up and then snapping it over.  to reduce the swing motion of the leg the instructor held a second paddle up as a visual reference of how far was too far.  I did great with my right leg, but with my left I nailed the paddle dead on.  Not the soft side but the edge.  I hit it just as I was snapping my foot and my foot was still relaxed.  I kicked hard enough that I kicked through the paddle and actually hit my intended target.  It  hurt pretty bad but I continued on.

The foot continued to hurt when I got home and I put some ice on it.  I woke up the next moring with a bruise across the top part of my foot and my toes.  I couldn't really walk on it.  As the day went on everything loosened up  and I was able to participate in the next class.  This of course aggrevated the injury. 

The bruising is now gone, but the top of my foot still hurts if I move it a certain way. It is possible that I broke something but I don't think I will ever know. 

Good one Karma.

*EDIT*

Here is a picture of the bruising

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It is Broken

My wife broke her 5th metatarsal on Saturday night.  On Monday when the swelling still hadn't gone down, I took her to the ER.  The doctors said that my spitting and rubbing dirt on it did nothing to help heal her foot.  They said that my demands that she walk it off were ill founded as well.  She will be getting it casted tomorrow and will be out of work for what looks to be a month and a half.  "Temporary disability insurance, why would we want/need that.  Oh crap!" 

They should have just cut it off and made her a cyborg.  Robocop was up and fighting crime the next day.  You can't tell me that he had some kind of mutant healing factor or those bullets wouldn't have hurt him so bad. 

It is her right foot, so she can't drive, which means I am.  I have to do all the things I normally do plus drive her to appointments.  I thought about making her drive with her left foot but she just barely can do so with her right.  I guess she could have my 6 y/o work the pedals.  She can't really get up and down the stairs, which means I am carrying her or going to get any little thing that needs to be gotten.  This turns out to be multiple things and I end up making multiple trips. 

My wife usually works evenings, which is great because we don't have to pay for daycare and I can do/watch whatever I want.  I can also rule my children with an iron fist without them running to their mother.  This is gone now.  I can feel the coupe de ta coming in which my rule as dictator is over.  I can see complaints coming about my watching TV, what I am watching on TV, or what I am reading. 

I am being punished!  Yes me, not her.  The proof, her foot doesn't hurt unless one of the kids jumps on it or she puts weight on it.  They gave her pain meds anyway.  She gets to have a pain free, limited activity(work), sit on the couch 6 weeks off.  I on the other hand have to go to work, get the kids out of bed, act as a chauffuer, act as transportation/teleportation up and down stairs, go shopping, and not relax.  Yes, I am the one being punished.  What did I do wrong?  My kingdom is crumbling. 

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