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Toe update

Oct 13, 2007
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My toe has gotten suddenly a lot better. I still have my nail, but I'm still not convinced that it's not going to fall off, however since yesterday I have more hope.

This is what my toe looked like on Wednesday, one week after I hurt it:

Toenail - One Week Later

Still pretty gross and purple. It didn't really hurt much anymore, but it felt really tight and swollen and...weird. This is what it looked like yesterday afternoon(and pretty well what it looks like now), though:

Toenail - Day 10

So much better. Hardly purple at all. Because it felt weird, I was picking at it, constantly checking if the nail was getting looser yet, because I was told over the weekend by someone who loses their nail every year due to soccer that, although it's gross, it hurts a lot less once the nail's gone. So, yeah, I was picking at it and then all this blood came out. It was pretty disgusting. Afterwards, it looked and felt a lot better. The pressure and weird feeling was gone anyway. It's a little tender today, but it's not so bad. I might actually be able to wear sneakers soon! Which is good, because it's getting a little too cold for sandals.

Toe

Oct 4, 2007
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Yesterday, I was straightening things up to mop my kitchen floor. I had a bunch of wine bottles sitting on the desk for the sever computer in the kitchen, to take back to my dad. He makes wine, so when he gives me some, I have to bring the bottles back...I usually forget though, so I end up with a whole bunch of them in my kitchen. Anyway, there was a bunch of these bottles, and I knocked one over, and it landed top side down right on the nail of my right big toe. Here's some clip art I crudely spliced together to illustrate my point:

Accident

Now, you'd expect it to hurt, but I wouldn't have expected it to have hurt as much as it did. I'm glad I don't have neighbours in the other half of my duplex anymore, because I'm sure they would have heard me swearing. And then my toe nail started to change color. It was light blue, then blueish green and then by this morning it was quite purpley.

Toe Nail - the next morning

Pretty, huh? If I'm lucky it'll just turn black and then grow out. But I'm not lucky, so I'm likely going to loose my toenail. Just in time for it to be cold enough that I'll have to swap my sandals for sneakers. Just lovely.