I'm pretty sure I said it is hard to explain...

SO... I sit forward in the computer chair, fairly straight up, but with my legs sorta curled underneath me, and my toes curled under. so the tops of my feet are facing down towards the floor. It is a spinny chair so I sorta swing back and forth in it. There was a toothpick embedded at an angle in the carpet, and on one of my swings, I jammed the top of my foot into the toothpick which went in about an inch and a quarter and broke with maybe 5/8 of an inch sticking out.

I tried to pull it out with my fingers. That hurt so much I got dizzy and my vision started graying over, plus the tooth pick didn't budge. I would have tried again with pliers, but it was REALLY hurting by then, and neither of my parents were willing to hold my foot still while I pulled, and my son wasn't home (he would have been willing to pull it out himself I bet). So... we went off the the ER instead. They got it out with the hemostat- one doctor holding my foot still the other pulling the toothpick out. Once they got it out, they were amazed at how far in it was.

The nurse quit being hostile, too. I think she realized I wasn't having a bad trip or in withdrawl or anything, but was just really in a lot of pain while being amused at my situation at the same time. After I was no longer in pain, I was far more lucid and apparently really funny. I kept cracking her up.

Of course, everyone who knows me just shook their heads and noted, once again, that I have the weirdest accidents and injuries.