broken toe :(

Life has been a complete blur in the last few weeks!

We were expecting our fourth child to arrive around April 8th- I had planned to work until the Friday before the due date for two main reasons: firstly, all my children were a week overdue and secondly, I was trying to make the most of my maternity leave of six weeks plus the two weeks school holidays. For once I was trying to be semi organised. It was going according to plan until two weeks before the due date and things went pear shaped from there.

On Wednesday 23/3/11, I was racing (well, as fast as I could being heavily pregnant) around the house trying to get three kids and myself out the door and I stubbed my toe- yep- it hurts like heck for a minute and then goes away- not this time! I had caught my little toe on the corner of two skirting boards and it was ripped sideways- swelling and bruising started immediately. Oh, and I could hardly walk on it either. Dag nammit- it was 7.45am and I had to call my boss to say I couldn't go to work- I think I broke my toe. How ridiculous! The next phonecall was to the doctor to fight the receptionist for an appointment, thank the Lord I managed to get one. Trying to see your own GP without booking weeks in advance is like trying to extract blood out of a stone!

So, after kids were delivered to school/kindy I then found myself sitting in the doctors room- she said it was most likely broken but wouldn't Xray because I was pregnant and the treatment is the same for bruised toes anyhow- buddy strap it to the toe next door and to keep off it for ten days- which caused more drama cos I still had another week and a half left of work to go... Bugger all sick leave left either, one day I think.. Anyway- God always provides and I was blessed that people at work were prepared to "gift" a few sick days to tide me over as needed- I couldn't afford to take leave without pay because I'm the only income earner at the moment. I took the rest of the week off and had made plans with my boss to come in Monday and stay in the staff room doing prep work with my foot up to finish the week off. Once again, plans didn't take shape as I intended. That's a whole new post on it's own!

TGBTG
Anje