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In summer 2019 I dropped one of these bad boys (an axle grinder) on my 

Not the best use for it. Ouch! (the language was a little fruitier)

For a few weeks after it hurt at the bigger second joint, the metatarsophalangeal or MTP joint for short. I didn't bother going to the doc (it's just a toe, right?), and carried on walking this one:

My dog-walking buddies - all with various foot ailments of their own (well, we are all middle-aged and been round the block) - commiserated and speculated that it would right itself in time. 

Sure - just walk my way through it.

So I did - hobble - for the next couple of months. It wasn't getting better, but then - bang! - even worse was to come, I did my knee in. Same leg (right) and that took way more precedence. I couldn't walk at all for a few weeks, presented to the doc, strapped the knee and began rehabilitation. For the next couple of months, the knee was the thing. I forgot the toe (I could barely walk anyway). 

Then the unimaginable happened - Covid 19 pandemic. 

Two years (and two house moves later), the knee stronger and healthier, restrictions lifted and hospitals and GP surgeries getting back to normal, it was time to get the toe sorted....

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