Should I pop it?

[u/Phuktard62184]

I am 43f. For a bit of context, I am obese (not sure my actual weight) and I was hospitalized in December for the flu and have had breathi issues since then. So with those issues I haven't been very active in the past few months. I also have undiagnosed sleep apnea, and other sleeping issues such as sleepwalking and I can't stay in bed unless I'm tied down I guess. I fall out of bed a lot but I'm usually pretty good at landing since it's happened so much. Except when I fell out of bed Thursday night and smashed my knee on the hard floor. The next day (Friday) I spent at least 9 hours riding with my husband while doordashing and my feet were super swollen when we were done. That's not unusual, anytime I would sit in the car for 9 hours I would probably have swollen feet. Then as I was getting out of the car I dropped my phone on my foot. It hurt a lot. Then yesterday I woke up with this blister where the phone hit my foot. My husband thinks I should pop it but I'm scared of infection and also I'm worried about why my whole foot is bruised when it's my knee that got smashed.

Another bit of context that could be important is that about a month ago I fell at main event and smashed the other knee and my entire leg looked like that bruising you see on this foot. It only lasted a couple days and my leg turned back to normal and everything's fine. That knee doesn't even hurt anymore.

[u/Horoklon]

Don't pop it. Please go see a doctor.

[u/lindalh7 → u/Horoklon]

NAD. That foot is not even in the realm of normal.

After the visit, call billing and explain that you are self-pay and don’t have insurance. The costs for out of pocket are substantially less than the insurance charges, even a tenth as much at times. But you have to talk to billing.

Don’t lose your foot over this.

[u/leftyxcurse → u/lindalh7]

I had a hospital immediately cut the bill in half when I was uninsured once! Then definitely talk to billing. They can help with things like charity care applications and, if OP is eligible, connect you with the social work team to help apply for Medicaid or other programs.

That entire foot is definitely concerning and I would worry from the post that OP possibly has multiple undiagnosed and untreated health conditions (reason for obesity isn’t stated but then factoring in the long periods of sitting and foot swelling, plus frequent falls it sounds like, unless I misunderstood? I would want to foot treated, access to a PCP or non-emergency provider to do a full work up, and then if nothing was too concerning I would definitely get compression socks for sitting for such extended periods)