OT: Emergency Toenail Removal
- From: natjo1986 <natjo1986@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:51:23 -0400
One week ago I started work at a local restaurant as a cashier. It's an all right job with barely above minimum wage pay. The first day after standing on my feet for eight hours I noticed that my big toe was hurting more than necessary and was looking a little swollen. Then the next day the toe was the same swollen size just a little more red. Then progressively the toe got more and more red until the toe was looking purple. Finally yesterday I finally took the plunge to go to the emergency room because my big toe pain was just too much. I was also worried about the fact that I’m a diabetic and that I’ve been told that diabetics should really worry about their feet. I went into the emergency room and told them that my big toe was in great pain and that I wanted it checked out. In what seemed a very short wait and registration I saw a nurse that took my vitals and asked to see the toe. She quickly recognized it as an ingrown toenail and asked me if any kind of trauma has happened to the toe. I had to think for a little while and remembered that about two weeks I was in a hurry for something and forgot something in my bedroom and in my haste I stubbed the heck out of my toe on a bed post and knocked part of the toenail off. I've heard of ingrown toenails and always wondered what they looked and felt like. Now I know what they look like and they hurt like heck. At that moment my bubble was kind of burst because I thought they would just give me an antibiotic and a pain pill and tell me to see my family doctor in the morning. That was not the case though. After being escorted to a private room and a wait of ten minutes a doctor came in. He was not the sort of doctor that would think it a sin to eat a cow or a doctor whose grandparents were on the bad side in the pacific theater of WWII. He was a wholesome doctor that looked like you could go to a bar and have a drink with. Anyway I digress, the doctor came in and reiterated what the nurse said of it being an ingrown toenail and said that it should be probably removed today because I’m a diabetic. He asked me if I wanted the toenail removed today and I quickly said yes, because I do not have medical insurance and a podiatrist would have cost me at least $400. After another five minutes the doctor came back with a syringe full of something and it had a needle the size of the Washington Monument. He told me to brace myself and poked me with the needle in my big toe. I really didn’t feel the needle go in but I did feel the warm liquid going through my big toe. Then about ten minutes after the injection I felt nothing in my big toe. May I remind you that before the injection of numbing medicine my big toe couldn’t be touched at all. The doctor told me that I shouldn’t feel a thing while doing the surgery and I didn’t. He grabbed the toe with what looked like needle nose pliers pulled the big toe up and off. Luckily I didn’t feel a thing because if that had happened without a numbing medicine I probably would still be crying in pain at this very moment. My toe was quickly wrapped and given a pain pill and antibiotic prescription. I was also given an excuse for work that I would be able to return to work on August 20 and that I should return to the emergency room in twenty-four hours so the doctor could take a look at it and rewrap it with gauze. On my way home I stopped by my place of work to give them the excuse that I couldn’t work Friday and Saturday and that I would see them on Sunday. Well today while at the emergency room getting the toe checked on by the doctor he said that I should probably stay off the toe longer than at first suggested. So he rewrote me an excuse that I should return to work on August 26. I told the doctor that would be a little to long for me because I surely would be fired from my new job because I’m just still in the probationary period. He told me that if I did not stay off my toe as much as possible and if I stood on it for eight plus hours a day it would be very likely that it would get infected and a good chance of amputation of either my toe or foot. Well I went to my place of work again today and gave them new excuse of having to stay out of work even longer. I don’t consider my self being fired, I really consider my self being let got for the better of the company. I really don’t feel bad losing the job. I just feel bad losing work. I had big ideas of what I was going to save up for and one of those was moving out of my mother house. You may be asking yourself though at this point what does this have to do with The Beatles. Well only one thing I was planning on buying the Anthology DVD, and now I have to payback my mother for getting my pain pills and antibiotics with the five days that I worked. The cool thing that came out of this is that the doctor let me keep the removed toenail to really gross out my brothers.
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