I feel for you with your toe mate, i fell down our last 4 steps a few months back after a few shandy's, ended up in crumpled heap at the bottom up against the meter cupboard! Broke my three middle toes on my left foot, they said as i'd broken all three there was no point taping them up. It was agony for about 3 weeks. As for the meat, bran flakes with a couple of prunes! Job done. 
Oh yes, the prunes. The lamb came with prunes on Saturday. But that was ok. But on Sunday, I made a 'pig' of myself eating a massive amount of organic fillet steak. It was the whole fillet of the cow and it was so good, that I must have eaten more than half of it. I could not move for 4 hours and had a massively distended stomach. Add to that, the alcohol, the painful toe: you get the picture. Could not get my overcoat around the bloody ponch.
Toe seems better, but pretty swollen. God, yours must have been a real killer. How the hell did you get around, wear shoes or function generally?
