Okay, so Saturday, I was getting some pans out to make dinner (spaghetti, one of my personal faves) when a sauce pan slipped from my hand and landed RIGHT on the big toe of my left foot. Keep in mind, this isn't one of those modern razor thin pans with the silver surface on the bottom and the black, non stick surface, no this was an old school, 70s era, THICK ASS metal pan.
Long story short, it hurt.
Luckily, nothing was broken, as I could still move my toe, but MAN it still hurt!
Well, it's been a few days and the pain has gone away, although my toe has swollen pretty good and it almost looks like my toenail is wanting to pop right off. Not sure if I should pull it off or leave it be. Anyway, been soaking it in warm water with epson salt, hoping that'll help. It looks purplish where the blood has built up. Poked it slightly today while trimming my nail and some blood oozed out. Didn't look like "real" blood, though, more like diluted blood, if that makes sense.
Dunno, what to do, research on first aid only covered broken toes, not "heavyass pan dropped on toe."
But hey, like I said, doesn't too much anymore, guess, I'll just keep doing what I'm doing...
I really banged my head something fierce a couple of days ago while I was feeding my cat and was leaning underneath the edge of my breakfast bar. I didn't realize how far forward I was leaning and I stood up quickly and WHAM! I've got quite the lump on the back/top of my head. Since I shave my head with a razor it's that much more noticeable. Hurts like a dickins as well if I roll over wrong on my pillow or whatever.
BTM- I got my thumb in a metal parts bending press many moons ago at a machine shop I worked at. It swelled like hell. I had to go to the doctoers...they took a small hammer type thing with a super sharp heated needle at the end and BAM! slammed a whole threw the fingernail. Blood squirted up like a nasty drinking fountain for a sec,which released the pressure. Then,just for good measure,they smacked it again! YEOW! That one hurt! I wanted to club the doctor right in his yap! In about a week, the nail turned black and fell off.
My big toe on my left foot is numb all the time. Some 25 years ago I ran my motorcycle into a wheel rut on a logging road and it snagged my foot and twisted it under the foot peg. Tore up a perfectly tennis shoe and left me with the aforementioned numb toe.
That really, really sucks.
The times I've seen a crushed toe with blood under the nail, the treatment administered was much like RCMerchant described. They punctured it to drain out the blood and pus and to reduce the swelling (which damages the surrounding tissue). Keeping it clean and soaking it in salts is probably a good bet to prevent infection. Hydrogen peroxide is a big favorite of mine for stuff like you describe.
A friend of mine is currently recovering from a broken toe received when he kicked me in the shin for 'not paying attention' to his latest rant. It didn't hurt me one tiny bit, but he's still hobbled from it two weeks later. Serves him right. :teddyr:
My college roommate once poured hot peanut brittle on his bare feet. It was not a pretty site, since the skin came away with the peanut brittle when we tried to peel it off.
Quote from: Raffine on September 06, 2007, 10:39:37 AM
My college roommate once poured hot peanut brittle on his bare feet. It was not a pretty site, since the skin came away with the peanut brittle when we tried to peel it off.
Eeeewwwww!! That hurts just thinking about it.
Quote from: Raffine on September 06, 2007, 10:39:37 AM
My college roommate once poured hot peanut brittle on his bare feet. It was not a pretty site, since the skin came away with the peanut brittle when we tried to peel it off.
OUCH!!! :buggedout:
Quote from: Raffine on September 06, 2007, 10:39:37 AM
A friend of mine is currently recovering from a broken toe received when he kicked me in the shin for 'not paying attention' to his latest rant. It didn't hurt me one tiny bit, but he's still hobbled from it two weeks later. Serves him right. :teddyr:
My college roommate once poured hot peanut brittle on his bare feet. It was not a pretty site, since the skin came away with the peanut brittle when we tried to peel it off.
Good gravy!! Your buddy kicked you-while ranting?! Your pal poured hot peanut brittle on his foot?! What kinda loonatics do you hang out with?!?! :buggedout:
When I was exiting a Metrobus one time, I got my right foot jammed in the door. The driver didn't notice and dragged me a few inches before I finally hurriedly and painfully got my foot out. The foot ached and was swollen for a while but eventually healed up. However I still find sharp shooting pains in said foot if I twist and turn it a certain way and sometimes I seem to get arthritis pains from it too.
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 06, 2007, 06:09:08 AM
BTM- I got my thumb in a metal parts bending press many moons ago at a machine shop I worked at. It swelled like hell. I had to go to the doctoers...they took a small hammer type thing with a super sharp heated needle at the end and BAM! slammed a whole threw the fingernail. Blood squirted up like a nasty drinking fountain for a sec,which released the pressure. Then,just for good measure,they smacked it again! YEOW! That one hurt! I wanted to club the doctor right in his yap! In about a week, the nail turned black and fell off.
Ow.. what felt worse you think, the original injury or the doctor's "cure"?
Quote from: JaseSF on September 06, 2007, 07:02:34 PM
When I was exiting a Metrobus one time, I got my right foot jammed in the door. The driver didn't notice and dragged me a few inches before I finally hurriedly and painfully got my foot out. The foot ached and was swollen for a while but eventually healed up. However I still find sharp shooting pains in said foot if I twist and turn it a certain way and sometimes I seem to get arthritis pains from it too.
Does it tell you when it's going to rain?
I'm told some types of injuries that, even when healed, will tell people when it's going to rain. (I believe this is because some injuries are affect by a chance of pressure in the air, which, incidentally, is what happens before it rains.)
There's probably a more medically explanation, but that's all I really know..
Yes it does in fact. More often than not.
Quote from: Raffine on September 06, 2007, 10:39:37 AM
A friend of mine is currently recovering from a broken toe received when he kicked me in the shin for 'not paying attention' to his latest rant. It didn't hurt me one tiny bit, but he's still hobbled from it two weeks later. Serves him right. :teddyr:
Were you secretly wearing shin guards or do you just have really hard shins? Tell him next time he tries to get your attention a 2x4 to the head might be more effective.
Quote from: trekgeezer on September 06, 2007, 08:26:04 PM
Quote from: Raffine on September 06, 2007, 10:39:37 AM
A friend of mine is currently recovering from a broken toe received when he kicked me in the shin for 'not paying attention' to his latest rant. It didn't hurt me one tiny bit, but he's still hobbled from it two weeks later. Serves him right. :teddyr:
Were you secretly wearing shin guards or do you just have really hard shins? Tell him next time he tries to get your attention a 2x4 to the head might be more effective.
Never kick with your toes. Depending on what you are doing, you use either your laces, blade of the outside of your foot, or plain old the bottom of your foot. The only time I'd ever strike with the toe area is if I was wearing boots (hopefully, safety boots). Yes, I practice kicking people every week.
QuoteNever kick with your toes.
Yep, it was just my bare shin bone against his bare toe bone. I don't think toes are much good for anything.
QuoteGood gravy!! Your buddy kicked you-while ranting?! Your pal poured hot peanut brittle on his foot?! What kinda loonatics do you hang out with?!?!
Just your average "Usual Gang of Idiots" here in rural Tennessee!
Quote from: Raffine on September 07, 2007, 01:16:34 PM
Yep, it was just my bare shin bone against his bare toe bone. I don't think toes are much good for anything.
Well, they do help us to stand upright and come in handy for walking...
I had crushed my right thumb in a door jamb--twice--more than 30 years ago. The nail fell off after turning purple and never grew back right... if medical attention can help your toenail grow back right, I urge you to consider it. That bad thumbnail has been a small curse my whole adult life.
QuoteWell, they do help us to stand upright and come in handy for walking...
Isn't nature supposed to be evolving our toes right off our feet? Maybe one day people with have something like Barbie or G.I. Joe feet. If the five toenails combine together like some kind of hoof, they'd be finally useful for kicking non-attentive companions.
I did know a guy in school who had six toes on one foot. Whatta throwback!
If you Google "six toes" you'll discover there is some kind of trend out there in internet-land regarding rumors of certain celebrities having six toes including:
Marilyn Monroe
Oprah Winfrey
Halle Berry
Kate Hudson
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/untitled.jpg)
Some kill-joy skeptic claims Oprah's alledged sixth toe is actually a bunion.
I don't know if it's a freak toe or a bunion, but for a billionaire, Oprah sure has some ugly feet.
Quote from: Raffine on September 07, 2007, 09:48:19 PM
I don't know if it's a freak toe or a bunion, but for a billionaire, Oprah sure has some ugly feet.
I've seen uglier.
My wifey had to have an extra toe removed as a child...and the making of one on her other foot that never formed still needs work. She has ugly feet! But a beautiful heart! My mother has some horrendous feet! The middle toe on each foot iis the longest! Which looks real creepy! My big toe toenails need to be cut with wire cutters...their thick and yellow...they look like Larry Talbot's toenails...! This is kinda making me sick!!! :bouncegiggle:
At the first lumber yard I worked at one of the forklift drivers, with a little help from me, managed to run over my left foot and ankle, not all the way, they got stuck under the right rear wheel and acted like a block, actually stopped the lift truck's forward motion. This was a very painful experience to say the least, at the ER I was told that x-rays showed that I had really bad sprain of my foot and ankle, was wrapped in ace bandage, given a pair of crutches and a prescription for pain relievers and sent home. It was about 7 - 8 weeks before I could walk without a limp, and when ever it's cold my ankle hurts. Fast forward about 25 years, working in the office now, during inventory as I stepped off a rack of molding that I'd been counting I turned my left ankle, it started to swell and get painful so I went to the industrial clinic. They x-rayed my ankle, the doctor comes back to the examining room with the x-ray, tells me my ankle is sprained and then says he has something interesting to show me. We're looking at the x-ray and he says at some point a long time ago you ankle was broken and it never healed correctly, the bones are only back together in this small area, what you have is a fractured ankle, but we can fix it if you want us to. I asked him how and he said they would just break my ankle again, then put it in a cast for 8 weeks. I declined his offer.
Quote from: DENNIS on September 09, 2007, 10:30:57 AM
We're looking at the x-ray and he says at some point a long time ago you ankle was broken and it never healed correctly, the bones are only back together in this small area, what you have is a fractured ankle, but we can fix it if you want us to. I asked him how and he said they would just break my ankle again, then put it in a cast for 8 weeks. I declined his offer.
So, they screwed up fixing it the first time around? Wow.
Guess as long as your ankle doesn't bother you normally, I'd decline that "fix" as well.
On Saturday I was in the laundry room putting a piece of cardboard behind the drier, to block the cat from being able to crawl down into the sump pump area. The cat is white and grey and of course it's pretty dirty down by that pump. So anyhow, I've got an X-acto knife to cut the cardboard, and I set it on top of the drier. I have to move the drier a little farther to get behind it, so of course the knife falls off. An X-acto knife isn't a particularly aerodynamic object, I would think the chances would be about 99% that it would fall on its side, or blunt end first. What do you suppose the chances are that it would fall blade end down, perfectly balanced so as to focus the entire weight of the shaft right on top of the blade? On top of my foot? Right into the big bone on the inside of the foot, for maximum impact. It didn't really hurt (though there was some blood), just made me chuckle at the odds of that happening. Now I've got a nice 1" diameter perfectly round bruise with a little red dot in the middle.
Oh well, that was nothing compared to when I ran over the hornet's nest with the lawn mower a couple of weeks ago. :teddyr:
Quote from: BTM on September 09, 2007, 11:09:27 PM
Quote from: DENNIS on September 09, 2007, 10:30:57 AM
We're looking at the x-ray and he says at some point a long time ago you ankle was broken and it never healed correctly, the bones are only back together in this small area, what you have is a fractured ankle, but we can fix it if you want us to. I asked him how and he said they would just break my ankle again, then put it in a cast for 8 weeks. I declined his offer.
So, they screwed up fixing it the first time around? Wow.
Guess as long as your ankle doesn't bother you normally, I'd decline that "fix" as well.
It only hurts when it's cold, only time it really bothered me was surfing, it would get so painful that I would have to get out of the water.
I haven't been surfing for a number of years so it's not really a problem.
Quote from: Jack on September 10, 2007, 07:26:37 AM
What do you suppose the chances are that it would fall blade end down, perfectly balanced so as to focus the entire weight of the shaft right on top of the blade?
Pretty good, for some reason. I had a Marine do the same thing to me with a Benchmade tanto-point, assisted-opening knife once. He was above me, dropped it, and it hit me point down into the arm. I was able to look at it, still sticking out of my bicep, and make a noise ("Arrrggghhh!") before it twisted over and fell out. It was only in the muscle, not the bone, but that was a little painful.
The LCpl was apologetic.