The source of my toenail problem that made it so the infection was not getting better has been discovered. It turns out while my mom was cutting it a month or so back, there was a piece that we missed that was way into the toe... Well, I was looking at it and I thought I saw a piece of skin. I pulled it up and it was like a hard piece of skin... It wouldn't go back down to where it used to be and just stuck straight up... I ignored it for a while and didn't think much more of it...
Then, I fooled with it more... It hurt to touch... My dad came in while I was messing with it. He looked at it and said "It's a piece of your toenail, not a piece of skin." I showed it to my mom. She got the tweezers, told me she wasn't going to hurt me (right then) and I found out she was lying when she ripped it out. Ouch...
But, it's a relief it finally came out... I'm just hoping it's all out...
~BOB~
2 comments:
Gosh, BOB, I'm so sorry you are having so much pain with your toe. I am glad, however, that you have chosen not to post photos... :-)
I hate that you are going through this again! They are sooo painful!!
I highly recommend having that side of the nail removed permanently. It involves cutting out just the side down to the root and then applying a chemical so it doesn't grow back there. The nail will look basically the same as it always did and you will never have that problem again. Heck, they may have something even easier now in the last 13 yrs since I assisted a Podriatrist.
It's probably so badly infected again that they probably can't do that procedure now.
It is true that cutting your nails correctly helps, but some people have such curled nails that it just is a matter of time before getting one again.
The Wolf Family
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