thank you, everyone! it's been 11 days . . . .the bruising has pretty much gone away . . . my neighbor, it turns out is a nurse at the ER, she looked at my foot, and pretty much surmised that i did indeed break a toe, and gave me some tape to stablize it. I can walk ok at this point, still have a hard time after swimming laps, though. . . .
I have learned an important lesson from this ordeal, though: No more sitting on the bar for me
