Well, that was an adventure.

Dislocated toe around 1:30 AM last night in tickle war with Sam (not recommended, he's deadly). OW. Wake Fred, since all oncampus Health Ads are asleep. First response? "Wow, I've never seen anything like that" (and he MEANT it. no amputation jokes :( ), and determines that I'll need to go to the ER... but RA's aren't allowed to drive students to the ER for some liability reason. Sam calls and wakes Pat (wonderful, wonderful person that he is), Pat comes over at 2:15 AM to drive me to the ER (did I mention Pat was awesome?). Spend 1.5 hours waiting in ER and holding cold pack on toe, trying to do german and keep Pat awake (much laughter about infomercial advertising pep-up vitamins for dogs... "He was *never* this energetic before..." - must have crack as main ingredient. ;). Talk to somewhat flaky male nurse who tells me they won't realign it, they'll just tape it and send me on my merry way with drugs (what?! should've just grabbed toe and yanked when I was sitting on the floor of Sam's room...). Pat and Sam very interested in peripheral equipment in ER room, especially GI pump. Get X-ray taken. Doctor comes in with X-ray... no fracture. Yaay! -sigh of relief- They will realign it... after a LOT of local anesthetic. 4 shots of lanocaine into digital nerves on toe... No sensation! Blissful :) Doctor takes toe, wiggles, and one loud pop later, toe is realigned. Pat fascinated ("I could've done that! ...well, they do make it look easy"). Released at 4:30 AM, Pat drives Sam and me back to Blacker. Asleep by 5:15, after emailing for extension on german exam. Hooray. (well, except for 10 AM class...)

I think this means I win the 'dumbest reason to use crutches' award this year. Boy do I feel stupid... damn toe.
If I have to use crutches anyway, I might as well have broken something, and have an impressive story to go with it. ;) I just wish I didn't have to use these crutches... my arms are already sore. I don't want to make the round trip to Baxter two more times today! Ah well. Only a few more days... though I'm sorely tempted to try to ride tomorrow regardless. The doctor did say that it was possible to use the foot afterwards, just not too much... it's not hurting at all right now... and if I don't put any weight on it for the first 40 hours, riding for a half hour wouldn't be so bad. Right? -sigh- Curse my luck.