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!
6 comments:
I am suddenly so grateful that i have healthy toes. thnaks you really made me feel much better about my life. I kinda wish i could have seen your toe burst open. and at the same time ithink it is the las t thing i would want to see. heal well brother
I completely second what Rach said. That is the most awesome and the most disgusting thing ever. I am feeling really squeemish, but of course I had to enlarge every pic to get a better look. How did you sleep?
Yeah Shwa, a twisted part of me wishes I could have shared that moment with you. Hope it heals alright. You;ve endured some discomforts of late haven't you? Looking forward to future posts.
Jake
Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! Hey where did the saying "stung like a mother" come from? LOve your mother. by the way hope you heal fast love you, mom
Due to 'fleshy toes', ball hockey and martial arts, I have had three of my toenails totally removed and two have had the sides removed (big toes) and I need two more nails removed which will leave me with three normal ones.
Callus does grow in though but is less hassle than ingrown nails. It is relief to get rid of them, in the end.
Please get well. Russ (Blogger next blog)
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