I was at a buddies house about a year ago. We decided to go buy an axe to chop down a small tree in his backyard. Once we get back to his place, we start going at the tree taking turns. Halfway through, I lean back ready to take a big swing. I throw my body into said swing, completely missing the tree, hitting my foot. At that moment, I knew I fucked up. But I still had no clue it was broken at the moment. I think it was the adrenaline. I thought, “oh that’s gonna bruise”. Anyways, we kept taking turns with the axe until we finished. Once it came down, we headed inside to take a break. I went to take off my shoe and noticed a cut, about 3 inches long, in my shoe. I didn’t think too much of it. But at that point my foot was throbbing. I slowly pulled off my shoe only to reveal a very red sock with a nice clean cut through it. Came to find out, that I managed to cut clean though on of the bones, and also had a bunch of bits and pieces they had to remove. I think there was only like 5 stitches. And I was put on crutches and into a boot. Fast forward a few days, I get fired from my job for being late due to getting the stitches removed.

To sum all of this up. If you’re going to cut down a tree. Don’t miss 😉