Hawk vs. Chair: Chair Wins

Hawk banged her foot pretty hard into a piece of furniture Tuesday and may have broken her toe. Or, as she and I both like describing it, "She picked a fight with a chair, and the chair won."

She got X-rays at the urgent care clinic on Tuesday. The scans didn't show a broken bone, but swelling and discoloration on the toe suggest the scans may have missed something. Hawk notes they didn't take an x-ray from the side where most of the swelling later appeared. She has an appointment with a trusted orthopedic surgeon Friday, so she'll learn more then.

Read more: A Coincidence at the Hospital
Update: Broken Toe not Broken

Like Mother, Like Daughter: At the Hospital

Hawk broken her toe (maybe) the other day. It's weird how sometimes the pain doesn't hit right away. For 30 minutes after banging it into a chair she thought she'd just jammed it. It hurt, but the pain wasn't OMFG bad, so she played her "I'm a big girl" card and toughed through it. Then the pain got worse and she decided a) it's quite possibly broken and b) I need to go to urgent care now.

I took her to the clinic and had to wait outside. I mean, she went right in, but the pandemic-times policy remains that only patients are allowed to enter. I sat outside on a bench for a while. Hawk texted me "It's going to be 2-2.5 hours, wait for me at home." Home is only ~10 minutes away so that seemed reasonable.

BTW, when the emergency room tells you it's going to be 2 - 2.5 hours that's generally a good thing. They are doing triage. You don't want to be the one rushed in right away; that means they think you're about to die!

While Hawk was in the waiting room and I was waiting at home, a long text arrived from her mom. She let us know she was at the hospital (2500 miles away), had been admitted, and was awaiting tests.

"What a coincidence, we're at the hospital, too!" I wanted to text back. But Hawk had already sworn me to secrecy from her parents. They tend to over-worry, and they have enough problems of their own to manage without fretting about hers, too.

Update: Hawk told her parents on Friday, after she got better news from the specialist: it's actually not broken. Her aim wasn't to conceal the injury from them entirely but to delay sharing information until unknowns were resolved.