piggies down

I feel for you man.  It's amazing to me how something as simple as walking down the stairs often turns into a huge production.  And you were trying to do your fatherly duty and whamo!

Hope the pigs heal-up quickly and I hope the wife forgives you for being such a wimp...

Oh pookie. Piglet with hurt piggies. I've been there. It sucked. I played soccer on that foot, toes tightly bound, within a couple of days. DO NOT DO THAT.

{{{MELON PRESS}}}

Soooo... did the Misses ever get unannoyed at you?

Sorry man, that sounds painful.

Dude, that sucks!  My wife was in a similar boat (of course less severe)...

You probably won't believe this, but it's true!  6 weeks ago, my wife and 2 year old were on the 1st or 2nd steps going to the upstairs...our older two ran to the top, when one of their heels accidentally kicked the gate off its' hinge...it proceeded to bound down the steps (as you know, they are heavy plastic) and my wife instinctively put out her hand to protect our little guy.

Spiral fracture, ulnar gutter splint...fortunately, she avoided pins and has made a great recovery...

but I'll have you know, I did a LOT of dishes in that time period!  

btw, my prescription for your missus is some compassion training!  Holy smokes...you were down there going above and beyond the call of duty!  I hope she knows you deserved better treatment, just sayin'.

You know that feeling when you're in an airplane and it drops about 500 feet, and all of your hair stands on end and you break into a cold sweat? 

Just reading your encounter made me feel like that.   Congrats on HTFU in the night, and on your successful untrained orthopedic endeavors.

Hope you heal quickly.

I never went that far to not have to get up to feed the kids.....but if I would have thought of it.....

Sorry to here that mishap happened while you were trying be be a great dad. Like 2Goggs said you rstory made me cringe also. Speedy recovery to you.

i know the story is about your foot, but i just can't get past your wife.  if my husband fell and broke half of his toes i wouldn't just roll my eyes and go to bed...this gets a big "really" and a "wow, just wow" from me.

hope you have some good meds for today!!

I had a similar incident when my daughter was 3 weeks old.  She woke up in the middle of the night, and I got up to get her.  Being half asleep, I missed a step going downstairs.  As I started to fall, I instinctively did what I could to protect my daughter.  The two of us ended up bouncing down half a flight of stairs.  Actually, I bounced, and she rode comfortably down the stairs on my chest.  

The noise of me falling caused my wife to come out of the bedroom, quickly.  She rushed down the stairs, grabbed my crying daughter off my chest (she had been crying when she woke up), and stepped over me to continue to the bottom of the stairs.  

She gave me that " you idiot" look as she stepped over me, ignoring the fact that I was laid out on the stairs.  She then proceeded to get angry with me because I wasn't getting off the stairs fast enough to get in the car and rush my daughter to the emergency room.

At the hospital, the Dr. says "the baby is fine, but I don't think your husband looks so good".  I could swear my wife rolled her eyes when the Dr. checked me out.  Needless to say, I ended up being the only one that was injured.

OUCH! Spiral fracture? Amazing how something so simple, or mundane turns into something quite prolonging and fairly serious.

In my wife's defense, she's generally a very caring woman who would go above and beyond to care for me. That night I think the frustration was setting in with Mr.E just waking up what seemed to be every hour and her just not getting any good steady sleep.

That and she really didn't look at the injuries until she came back down because her goal was to keep Mr.E from waking up the other child. Oh well. And seriously, let's face it, she doesn't have the strongest stomach so she probably would've definitely had issues seeing my toes going the wrong way.

Oh, Lortab is some good stuff

x2 but we don't have kids so can't comment

Sorry to hear

x2 and I do have kids.

Ouch... just... OUCH!

snerk!  well-played.