Friday, January 22, 2010

WARNING! Not for the squeemish




Alright, this is a pretty morbid post, but i haven't posted anything for a while, and even though it is my slow season, i have been really busy, (more on that in forth coming posts).

last week i injured my little pinky toe (i am not sure how) but ended up with a hangnail. it was moderately sore (i have had these before) only this time it never healed. a couple of days ago my toe felt like it was going to explode, it was huge and very sore. i could feel my heart beat in it! finally after realizing that my neglect was not getting me anywhere i went to the doctor. The doctor made me see a foot specialist, the foot specialist said it looked bad. he said " i can promise you that you will sleep better tonight than you have in a couple of days, i can also promise you that you are going to hate me for the next 30 minutes). That was comforting. He produced some litocane to numb my little piggy, and he said it was going to be the most painful part of the ordeal. HE WAS RIGHT! Man that hurt! he spent 20 seconds with the needle in my poor little toe injecting all around the litocane. it stung like a mother! when that was done he said he was going to dig out my hangnail. he took turniquite rubber thing and clamped it on the base of my toe then started wrapping gauze around my toe very tightly, then all of the sudden my toe burst open, it was totally discusting! he unwrapped the gauze and took a scalple and punctured the skin beneath my toe nail, then he took some hemostats and inserted them in to my toe via the hole he had just made and started 'probing' for lack of a better word around then he clamps down on something and tears it out. it was a huge piece of Toenail that was causing the infection! it was totally unbelievable how large it was. then he could poke a stick from my toenail through the back end of my toe, all the way through?! that was trippy and i am certainly glad that it was numb or i might have puched his lights out. that was it! after some clean up, he wrapped my toe up and gave me some instructions regarding care of it, and i left.... but check out the pics. if you dare!