My recovery was complicated by a dismissive ER doc telling me I'd only broken a toe, so I taped my toes together and hobbled on it for a week, because what else do you do for a broken toe? My working class upbringing and ability to ignore pain overrode my medical knowledge.

Which is dumb, because my foot looked like a rainbow balloon animal.

The podiatrist I saw when it got worse after a week told me I'd broken a metatarsal in the body of the foot, so there was a walking boot, cortisone shots, physical therapy for the foot, and then again later for the hip because I'd been limping speedily in the FrankenFoot instead of using a normal gait.

Don't do that. I don't recommend that at all.