At the hospital, doctors gave Martin a tetanus shot, applied lidocaine, removed the key and wrapped her foot up. She wasn’t given any stitches because it was the bottom of her foot, an area more prone to infection. The whole time she was in the emergency room, Martin and her friend captured the situation on camera.
A few days later she decided to post some of the photos of the incident on TikTok, not thinking much of it. But when she woke up the next day after posting, she noticed the video had gone viral, amassing more than 10.5 million views and 7,000 comments.
“My friends were blowing up my phone saying I had gone viral, and I could absolutely not believe it,” she says. “I was laughing even more because, again, what is my life? Always crazy things happen to me.”
“The comments are absolutely hysterical. I can’t stop reading them. The funniest comments I’ve come across are ‘foot locker,’ ‘you’ve unlocked the key to your sole’ and ‘new fear unlocked.’ ”
In the days following the incident, Martin remained in pain, and it was hard for her to walk. But, since she had a full week of work ahead, she had to push through and “hobble” around.
Looking back on the moment now, she adds how there’s one piece of information that makes things a whole lot funnier: she doesn’t know what the key belongs to.
“The night prior I was trying to locate the key to open my mailbox as I was trying to retrieve a present I got for my friend Cody on TikTok Shop,” she says. “When I went down to the mailbox it was the wrong key, and I just put it in my pocket. Who would’ve thought the next day I would step on the jeans and the key would go right into my foot.”
“It was such a ridiculous incident to happen and all I could do was laugh to ease the pain,” she says. “Only these type of crazy incidents happen to me — all my friends know crazy unexplainable events happen to me all the time. I joke around and say, ‘On this week’s episode of Madison’s life.’ ”
“I hope people learn: don’t leave keys in your pocket,” she continues. And “don’t leave your clothes on the floor. Laundry baskets are made for a reason.”
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