I was making dinner and was almost finished when Merril called me. He'd been riding his dirt bike when his foot hit a rock and bent his foot back. He said it immediately went numb and then hurt a lot. He was wearing his boots, knee braces, helmet, and body armor. His left foot was hurting and he was driving to the fire station to get checked out by the EMTs. They got his boot off and said it looked like it needed an x-ray. I met him at the new Hurricane ER. He drove himself. He said it felt like there had been a walnut in his boot. I had to get a wheelchair to get him from the truck.
The ER doc ordered some x-rays. Wade was here, cracking jokes and making us laugh.
The x-ray showed two dislocated toes: his piggy toe and the one next to it. The ER doc tried to hurry and reduce it while Merril was awake and it was too much! Merril said that was the most pain he's ever felt.
The next option included sedation. They gave him a ton of sedative and it didn't knock him out. He was loopy but still conscious. Two ER docs tried to reduce it but no luck. The on-call podiatrist from St. George was going to come over when he finished a procedure. So I ran home to eat and decided to grab my glasses in case it got late.
The podiatrist arrived around 10:30 p.m. and sedated Merril and tried to put the toes back. He yanked and pulled and they wouldn't go back in. Merril woke up and we were told to go home and not put any weight on it and surgery was the next step. The podiatrist thinks that some of the tendons or other soft tissue is in the way of the toes. We'll follow up on Monday.
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