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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Treasurefield on 2026-04-03 18:07:32+00:00.
TL;DR I injured my foot carrying a disobedient goat around and now I have to hobble through a bunch of hoops to get a boot for my foot.
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So I raise miniature goats and I have one miniature Nubian named Juby. She is my tallest goat and I guess my fencing is too short because she has learned how to jump in and out of her pen so she just wanders around the homestead whenever she pleases and lets herself back into the pen when she's done grazing. When I catch her out of the pen I pick her up, drop her over the fence, and try to fix it so she can’t jump over again but she always does. Mistake #1: having fencing that’s too short.
Yesterday she did this while I was feeding the chickens and eating too much chicken food can kill goats so I closed the gate to the chicken run, then I picked her up and tried to cary her over to her pen. That was mistake #2. She just wanted to follow me around so she would have probably just followed me to the pen if I had let her, no need to carry her the whole way. Unfortunately while I was turning the corner I twisted my ankle and fell. I dropped Juby and didn’t even have adequate time to wallow in the ground in self pity because she kept trying to climb on me as I laid there.
Later in the day I noticed my foot hurt a lot when I walked so I made an appointment with the local appointment-only urgent care and tried to wrap up my (remote) work quickly so I'd be on time. Mistake #3: Of course I was late because I always am and I live far away from town, so I missed my appointment and had to drive another hour and 20 minutes to the nearest urgent care on my insurances in-network list, which was in the “Big City”.
I got there 1/2 an hour before they closed so they wouldn't see me. I called the next clinic on the list and found out they were permanently closed, the next one had a disconnected phone line. The others on the list were either in different cities or already closed.
Finally I found an open clinic that was out of network and grabbed their last appointment of the day. I hobbled in and my foot is killing me after all this driving and walking in and out of the other clinic. They tell me it's a $250 copay, and that that covers anything I get done in-clinic (including x-rays). They take a look at the foot and say I probably don't need an x-ray but I can still have one if I want. I tell them yeah I want the X-ray because
- It took a lot of time and trouble to get my foot seen at all and
- I wanted my moneys worth
They X-rayed the foot and let me know they didn’t see anything so it's probably a soft tissue injury but they'll have a radiologist look at it. They offered me some Tylenol and sent me home without a boot or anything for my foot. Mistake #4: I didn’t ask for one.
A few hours later I get a notification from MyChart saying they found a small fracture. Of course they were closed by then. This morning I called my local hospital and asked what to do, they were shocked the urgent care hadn't followed up with me or given me anything for my foot. After some back and forth between them and the urgent care (who wanted me to drive all the way back to the big city for a boot and crutches) I have an appointment for later today at the local hospital and the urgent care will send my X-rays over to them.
In the meantime I’ve been hobbling around trying to do chores without a boot and of course Juby was out grazing this morning. This time I just made sure the chicken run gate was latched and just let her be. When I went to check on her later she was back in her pen, sunbathing without a care in the world.