It has been about 3 weeks since I stubbed my toe and it still hurt so I decided to go online to try to figure out why it hurt so much. I mean I have banged my toe plenty of times where the nail comes off but it has never hurt as much as kicking that stupid pumpkin.
Online I found out that if you drill a hole in your toenail it relives the pressure from the blood underneath the nail and you have instant pain relief. The other method was heating up a paperclip and burning a hole thru your toenail.
It was a pretty easy decision for me...I was going to burn a hole in my toe nail. I knew I didn’t have a small drill bit and somehow drilling thru my nail seemed like i would have to apply a lot of pressure and I was more nervous about stabbing the skin underneath my nail and putting a hole in my nail…hence burning a hole made more sense.
My first attempt was pitiful. I heated up the paperclip but it got so hot that I had to drop it. Apparently heating up the paperclip and not holding it with a glove or pliers gets pretty hot.
My second, third, fourth, fifth attempts were just as bad as I was trying to figure out how hot to make the paper clip. Where to put the paper clip. Just getting the angles for a do it yourself remedy.
I finally got up the nerve to just, ‘do it’ but once I smelled the nail burning and saw the smoke, my brain stopped and made me pull my hand back. I tried several more times but it was hard to ‘aim’ the paperclip back into the same hole i made. Another time I took too long and the paperclip cooled while it was on the nail and sort of got ‘stuck;’ onto the nail!
After about 30 minutes, I gave up. I was more upset thinking I should be able to do this but my brain just wouldn’t allow me to push hard enough to create the hole. Finally, I called Aya over and asked if she would do it for me. She looked it over and decided not too because she thought if she messed up that I would kick her in the face.
So long story short, here is my toe 3 weeks later with a partial hole in the nail.
Funny thing is, after I tried this my nail no longer hurt. I even lightly jogged on it up the street to chase Jack and the pain was minimal. Now I just have to wait a few months for the nail to either reattach or fall off.
3 comments:
You looked it up ONLINE and decided to operate on yourself????????!!! SERIOUSLY????
Do what I did...I took a sharp pointed wood screw and started to screw it into the nail...i would do a little at a time till i broke through the nail and the blood started to come out...then I stopped squeezed the blood out and my nail felt so much better and no pain!
jen-
yes...what else am i suppose to use the internet for?
gomer-
ahhh, that is a good idea. i thought about it but i was reading that if the object you use isn't clean and the skin under the nail gets infected then you are going to be worse off.
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