this is how i spent my labor day evening. hubby was moving the couch and i was not moving it but helping to guide it and the couch ran over my foot and as it ran right over my wittle foot, it clipped and brought off almost my entire big toe nail. i immediately screamed, stopped, and hubby doctored me up. i’ve never seen anything like this so i took pictures. the back pain meds helped me not to feel as much of this (so that was/is a blessing). but it is like this little THROBBING pain and oooooo it kills if anything or anybody touches it or if i bump into anything. and i can’t stand to have a closed shoe on it right now. even the slightest rubbing of it against my shoe just ain’t any fun. come share my photo journey. not for the squeamish. here is morbid monday but it is wednesday now i think.
great day to you. stay away from bad couches that rip off toenails. lesson-learned? i will never take off my slippers because i don’t have good footing and go barefoot. i will go against our house rule and put on a real shoe if ever doing anything like this again.
be careful today. peace, beany 
toenail is barely hanging there, just hanging on by the bottom rt. cool, eh? i could bend the whole thing back easily. it was like flapping in the wind, nothing there to keep it rooted to me.
- the doc is finishing the job and separating the rest of the nail from my toe. this hurt (no kidding, even numbed up, it still felt something to have this ripped the rest of the way out of me). i was squirming! but i was also fascinated and taking pics and the doc thought it was funny that i wanted all the pics. she made me laugh. i think the pain meds made me laugh, too, or think that things were especailly neat looking.
- toenail peek a boo … gross, eh? cool .. never looked inside there before
- here we go, here is the toenail that the doc just finished removing the rest of the way out of me. see all the white? that was under the skin. i had just recently had another pedicure, so there was no white showing on my toes, so the white you see was all beneath the surface. the whole thing, every possible bit of nail came full out of me. and you see the pink chunky line right there with the white part of the nail? can you guess what that is? i bet you can. that is skin of mine from under my nail that ripped off with it. eeeewww, eh? i might not ever have another toenail again or something freaky looking might grow back. we shall see. hey, if i paint all my nails red, you won’t even hardly notice that the big one isn’t really nail polish red, but that it is bloody gooey.
- it used to be there a moment before. the doc was such a trooper to pose for me while i took pictures. she was giggling with me and so patient with me. great bedside manner. that is NOT red nail polish on my big toe, there is nothing but skin there. ewwwww, eh? not something you see everyday, eh? daughter says i am in the wrong carreerfield because stuff like this doesn’t gross me out. she wants to be a nurse, so she was fascinated looking at the pictures when i came home from the urgent care clinic that night. funny thing .. when you do this to your toe, you don’t notice your backpain so much anymore. it that kind of like how you don’t notice you twisted your ankle because you broke your finger? it’s so strange to have just skin there and no pretty pedicured toenail.
- toenail totally off of me. all of the white was under my skin. that all came out of me when the meany couch ripped my toenail off. but seriously, so glad the couch didn’t crush or break my toe. could’ve been worse.
- look what is inside. wild. i was fascinated. yes, it hurt, but my back pain meds didn’t let me feel the full force of this toe pain. so it was a good thing i was already on pain meds, otherwise i would have been screaming in the urgent care clinic. the one guy tech was so funny with me. he couldn’t believe it that i wasn’t screaming and cussing. and he looked at al my cool photos after i got doctored up. he was fun. he is one of those southern guys who says babe at the end of most of his sentences. he made me feel very comfy to be there. the whole staff treated me great. so, all in all, not a terrible night. just a little painful but i am used to pain lately, eh? daughter and i are going to try to get a tour of the morgue (she wants to be a nurse, and i want to maybe maybe pursue something forensics related after i am done and retired from my government career. so much of that area fascinates me.
- what is under there really
toenail no more .. snug as a bug in a rug … my very own toe tent inside its sleeping bag. let’s be careful out there
Oh EWWWWWWW!!!! and OUCH!!!!!! I saw the first pic and had to scroll down without looking at the others because I just can’t! Not unless it is my kid or myself. You are just full of owies lately aren’t you? Get better- all better- soon!
ME TOO LENA!!! *squeak*
Hallie’s Morbid Monday’s are NOTHING compared to your best friend’s owie!
Scarred for life. And my toe hurts now.
*MY best friend’s owie, not Your’s. hahaha. DUH
OUCH! Forgive me if I don’t offer to kiss it and make it better. Eeewwww! When I said that about stomping your foot to take your mind off your back, I didn’t really mean it!
Ow! Oh! Gross!!!
oh my gosh! that is so gross….the amazing thing is one you lived to tell and even more amazing is that you captured it with photographs…!! do you always have your camera with you?
like the gold polish!
Ouch!!!!! As if you needed more pain. =( Hope it feels better soon.
ICK! OH!! OUCH!!! My girls ran over to my laptop the minute I yelled and had to tell me when I could look. I have to admit to reading NOTHING after the first picture…but I did look at the last one. You poor girl!!!
oh boy.
definitely shouldn’t have been eating.
what’s weird, is that i see broken bones, and blood & guts (and cadavers) on a regular basis at school but..
that made my TOE HURT!
i hope it’s better soon, lovey.
&hearts’
♥ *
ALL — oh, i am just giggling at all your responses to me sharing all my toe pictures and post. and some sent me emails, too, not just comments! awh, thanks. but let me tell you though, when your back is thrown out, you don’t feel other pain all that much. i hardly felt any pain from this toe experience.
hi lena beana — then you missed out.
hi suebee — i knew you meant my best friend, not your best friend, doll ((smiles)).
hi TARa — hehe, well i didn’t feel the foot stomping.
hi tori — i know! i know! hehe and i bet your sei wouldn’t scream at all if this happened to him (awesome taz man).
hi corrine — it wasn’t too bad, all around. and yup, i always have my camera with me because my PDA/cell phone/computer etc has everything on it.
hi cyndy — hehe, oh, so true girl!
hi angela — so cool how your daughters stepped in like that for you. really, i am not in pain. i’m healing just fine ((smiles)).
hi heather — awh cute note girl. isn’t that funky? it is easier sometime to look at stuff if we are detached from the situation or the person? thanks sweetie.
thanks all for the sweetness. i am having fun wearing a different colored doctored up toe each day (one day it is white, then one day red, then green today, hehe). if you can’t have fun with some of the icky, awh why not?? but if my back was not flared up, i sure bet i would’ve felt this big time!!
nighty night awesome bloggers, kathleenybeany
Interesting, I did the exact same thing two summers ago, almost an identical injury, but I did not go to the doctor for the final removal. It took about a year for the original damaged nail to fall off, and there was a half new nail under that.
Then it was still growing back funny, but I was like oh well cover it up with nail polish. I get pedicures a lot and they would work around it. Well, yesterday I went and had a pedi, and this woman worked my feet and basically dug out half a nail! Even she was grossed out (I gave her a big tip), now my nail is like a loose tooth, it’s really weird, but not painful.
I feel your pain, good luck with the toe nail.
Are you momon really??
Where aare you from?? I´m living in Colombia (Bogotá D.C.)
Bless you!!
You my friend are the “BIG TOE NAIL POSTER QUEEN”!!! You go toe!! I meant,you go girl!!!I think that I have to get a big toe nail on my left foot removed soon and seeing those pics I don’t think I want to do it. I won’t say yuck! I’m going to scream out a big OUCH!!!!
wicked!