This is the story about a toe.
A big toe.
This toe was no different than any other big toe.
But little did it know that on the fateful night of Sept 2, 2009,
this tow would embark on an incredible journey.
This is that journey ... with pictures of course. :0)
So, it all began as the toe, doing normal toe things. Was walking out of a drinking establishment on it's way back home. When much to its surprise it fell into a hole. An unfortunite hole in some plastic storm draining on the sidewalk. As toes do not have eyes or mouths or larynxes it did not see the hole, and thus could not call out to warn of impending doom. What occured in that instant was as the toe went in the hole, the toe nail did not.
The nail and toe had been seperated from eachother, and as this had never happened so much so in thier lives together, the toe wept; (lots of blood) from it's lost commrade. Things didn't look so bad at first, some seperating, and they knew they would eventually part from each other out of sheer trauma of the incident but surely things weren't so bad ... or so they thought.
Initial Damage:
The more obvious seperation:
The owner of the toe didn't think much of it. A little ozzing, but no big deal ...
The next day:
Badness begins; things looking pretty bad:
A nice draining tract of puss:
Or Two: (the bottom left corner)
And some nice streaking, incase it wasn't obvious enough that there was serious infection going on: (the red line from the toe up the ankle)
So to Urgent care we went. Got some good antibiotics. (including a shot of them in the bum). A tetanus shot. The removed the nail. Cleaned everything up. Soaked the nail in betadine. Then put the nail back in place. It was all very strange. They were bandaged up and sent away.
Within a couple of days things were looking better, though a bit soggy from being bandaged all the time:
Too bad the rest of the body decided to have an allergic reaction to the antibiotics ... pitty. A nice rash all over the place. (great :0P). No worries no pics of that. But now, the 4th trip to Urgent care (2 and 3 were rechecks) where we got new antibiotics and were told the nail really needed to come back off.
We had been working at that for the last 2 or so days so expected as much.
Today we worked harder and with much patients and a lot of soaking SUCCESS!!!
FINALLY APPART!!! AND FOR GOOD!!!!
Le sigh.
What started as a simple toenail injury has become the bane of the last week of my life. No walking, no running, no sunshine (thanks to the orginal antibiotic I was on, makes the skin photosensitive), bowel effects since the antibiotics killed all my normal flora, an allergic reaction complete with rash, and a back spasm from inactivity. Oh, and to top it off, I got attacked by a puddle when a care hit it leaving urgent care today; full on head to toe drench. Ahhhh, such is the life. But things should be on the up. At least I hope so. My goal by tuesday is to be able to wear a shoe without complete displeasure.
Cross your fingers (and toes ;0) ) for me!
(yes it was pretty much exactly like this; I looked like I just stood on the bridge after to the monsoon when the water's high and it's full of heavy people)
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