Why kids should pick up their toys

Yesterday afternoon I was getting ready to go work out. I got a load of laundry out of the dryer in an attempt to find a clean sports bra and since I am 5 loads behind on folding laundry, there was no available basket; I had to carry it loose. I'm walking down the hall way and it feels like I hit a patch of ice. next thing I know, I'm sprawled out on the floor--I fell all the way down! There was an excruciating pain in my left big toe; it had bent all the way forward. It was an exquisitely sharp, lingering pain that almost made me cry, and did make me pound the floor with my fists and scream. Ysa attempted to lighten the situation by coming over, bending down, and then mocking my half cry/half scream face and then laughing. I look around to see why the hell I fell down and I see a purple rubber ducky, laying on its side and smiling up at me, a puddle of water leaking from the squeak thing on the bottom. A fucking rubber ducky. I thought I broke my toe, but maybe just a bad bruise--I went to my workout anyway and we worked around it.

If my Bella is the type to laugh at other's misfortune, Goo makes up for it in excess worry. She asked over and over whether I would be all right. "It's not broken, right, Mama? You're okay, right? Your toe's gonna be fine, right? Right? Right, Mama?" After about 15 minutes: "How's your toe, Mama? It's gonna be fine, right? Does it feel better?" And then this morning: "I bet your toe's all better, right? Does it hurt less now, Mama?" Through all this I did reassure her, told her even if it was broken it would be fine, nothing bad would come out of a broken toe, and thanked her for her concern.

I do feel bad she worries so much; she's just like me in that regard. However, after awhile I used a technique taught to me by one of my professors. When she asked again if it was going to be all right, I said, "No, probably I will get gangrene and will have to chop it off." Then, she laughed. She said, "That's silly, Mommy, you don't get gangrene from a broken toe, you would have to put tight rubber bands around your toe until you cut the circulation off." Hmmm...wonder where she got that information?