OMG. So I've had some low level toe pain in the past couple months. I thought it was mostly due to having to wear socks ALL THE TIME because it was so cold up here, and possibly it was bad for them wrapping them in two pairs of socks constantly. But I didn't worry about it much.

And I'm not sure if what happened last night was related to that recurring dull pain or not, but OMGWTF!!!!!!! Later in the evening, like 9:30, I was like, 'Wow, my toe kind of hurts more than usual. I'll let it air out.' Whereas that would usually solve the problem and it wouldn't hurt again unless I squished it, it just continued to get worse. And worse and worse and worse. By 1am I'd laid in bed for like 2.5 hours trying to get to sleep and had not yet gotten there, due to the intense pain in my left big toe (I'm usually asleep within 20 minutes no problem). It was swollen, it felt really hard when I touched it, it was this sharp, stabbing pain, and it was throbbing all the way up to my knee. And I couldn't bend my big toe at all. It hurt SO FUCKING BAD you have no idea. I put it in some cold water and that really helped for a while, but 20 minutes later it was worse than ever. Anyway, around 3:30am, it finally subsided enough that I could go to sleep, and today it's been painful to the touch and a little sore but nothing compared to last night. I was thisclose to going to Doctors on Duty or something, but I couldn't find my HSA card, and the emergency room is hundreds of dollars, so I hobbled around in pain searching for nothing D:

I went on WebMD and the only thing it came up with that fit my symptoms was gout. GOUT, you guys! I'm not a 60 year old obese male, though D: Jason suggested it was 'growing pains,' and I'm hoping that that's what it was, even though it was pretty much the worst pain I've ever felt, and I'm supposed to be done growing. But if anyone else has experienced something similar, what was it and what did you do?! I'm scared it's going to hurt again tonight, and I have to wake up at 4:00 so that would not be good DDD:

Anyway... Peter came over last night, and that was fun as always. Jason & I went out to eat at this place called Heavenly Cafe, it was pretty tasty stuff. I had a quesadilla with turkey & a whole bunch of stuff in it, it was so good I was stuffed all day.