So, let's say that I'm about 95% sure that I have a stress fracture on the top of my foot. What should I do about it?

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Tape it and use crutches to take most of the weight off it. When I was just a couple of years older than you, I used crutches for my last two months of college, including finishing a thesis and taking oral exams and commuting from an apartment to the campus in a VW Beetle that my friend drove.

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