There’s nothing quite like the sweet, sweet smell of burning flesh…
…To start off a Monday morning.
For heaven’s sake, my luck with health this year has been somewhat lacking to say the least. I just can’t believe this year — I am wondering what I did in a previous life to deserve this?
On my long, long, long, loooooong, 1.5 block walk to work today (felt more like 10 miles), I decided that although I am practically on a first name basis with not just one but all four doctors at my clinic, I had better go and get this toe issue figured out. It kept me up again last night, regardless of the ibruprophen I took.
So, in I hobbled. Thankfully, the wait was minimal, and my doctor took a quick look at the toe and said, I had two options… Cauterize the flesh that had started to overtake my nailbed (it was treating the nail as a foreign body), or slowly push back the oozing flesh over a period of time. I said, just burn me. Get it over with so I can get on with my day.
I wasn’t prepared for the searing pain that came from the innocuous looking cotton swab that she jammed into that already very sore area of my toe. She looked back at me while smoke was wafting up from my big toe and said, “I told you it was going to hurt.” I think I was turning blue and purple all at the same time.
And then it was done. The flu shot was next, because, hey, why make another appointment for a quick shot. I didn’t even feel the jab, as my toe was still throbbing from the now blackened area. There’s pain management for you — Burn your toe so you are distracted!
She quickly scribbled up yet another prescription for antibiotics, and sent me on my hobbling way. Y’know — Extended medical would have been a good investment this year…
Lets hope the rest of my Monday goes better than this morning. How was everyone else’s Monday?
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I haven’t had a toe cauterized, but I DID have my nose cauterized in 1996 when it just wouldn’t stop bleeding. Black boogers for a week. GROSS. I hope you feel better soon!
OUCH!!!!!! I think that would be way worse than a toe being burnt to hell. Yikes… Poor girl!
ps: When are we doing that ‘intimate’ movie night? hehe… (I love stirring the pot.)
*takes over neighbours apartment and sets up telescope*
^^^ *brings popcorn and drinks*
[place eye roll here]
Intimate: a close/small gathering
-not-
Intimate: of a sexual nature
You guys really must get your minds out of the gutter
I got my flu shot today too, from a classmate. And I’ll be giving dozens of flu shots in about two weeks’ time when I do a shift at the immunization clinic.
Hey Mel! Did you get a weird taste in your mouth right after the shot, too… Or, was that just me still freaking out from my toe? haha…
Have fun poking people!
out of the gutter? I know not of what you speak. Where is this “out of the gutter” you speak of?
- or –
Leave my home? NEVER!
thats hot
go see the podiatrist next time! doctors just burn and cut, they dont prevent it from coming back!
trust me on this one
Noted. Although, I really don’t think anything else could have been done… Feet are horrible things.
you mean there’s a place outside the gutter?!?! DAMN! It’s a whole new world out there to corrupt.
What would BIGFOOT say about that?
OUCH! Damn, that sounds painful.
The one thing you can count on about pain — it hurts.
So sorry. Ouch.
Good God. The toe was worse than expected, eh?
Good thing you finally went in.
LOL Otto… I am bigfoot these days, or better put… BIGTOE. Almost Yetti!
Ya, the pain isn’t much fun still today… But at least I was finally able to get some sleep without it waking me last night!
I’m booked this Friday night and all day Saturday, so it’ll have to be on a week night or NEXT weekend. How does your schedule look?