Ok, so this is what happened. Three years ago I was riding my bike to work and this idiot in a Jeep Grand Cherokee backed out from a little corner convenience store without looking both directions. To avoid being hit, I turned my handlebars all the way to the right to veer around him. Due to attempting such a sharp turn, I was about to fall over, so I put my left foot on the ground to stop myself.

Well, I didn’t fall over, and the guy didn’t hit me full out, but his front left wheel (engine end of the vehicle, mind you) thumped over my left foot. Being stupid like I am, I put off going to the doctor even though my foot was killing me. I limped around for a month or so before it felt somewhat better, but even then it still hurt most of the time. Finally around two months after the incident, I went to get it checked out.

At that point it was too late to tell from the x-ray what had happened, so the doctor just supposed that my foot had been pretty much flattened against the road, stretching things that aren’t meant to be stretched and possibly breaking things. Well, he gave me an arch brace and told me to wear it for a while. I’m not sure that it really helped at all.

Well now, almost three years later, it’s really been hurting again. I find myself limping as I walk around campus. I can’t pinpoint the pain, it’s just somewhere inside my foot. Dang it. Why didn’t I just go to the doctor when it happened??? So really, it’s not my foot that is stupid, but me.

Well, hopefully it will just go away and get better. Somehow I doubt it.