CrazyMomCat’s Tale of the L-shaped Pinky Toe

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Xtessa’s Yowtch!

i have one for you… when i was a teenager, i cut my big toenail wrong so it developed an ingrown. it was swollen up and very painful… then, tragedy struck. a friend of mine stepped on that toe so the sore burst and out came pus. gross right? not the end of the story.

to remove the ingrown toenail, i had to have a mini-operation. my big toe was injected with anesthesia and then the doctor pulled out the whole toenail.

my right big toe had no nail… as in nada… for about two weeks… till it started to grow back again.

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TwistofKate’s Frozen Meat Incident

I have a story for ya. I was preparing for dinner and while walking with 2 pounds of frozen meat in my hand I tripped and dropped it on my second toe…I was wearing no shoes…it HURT! After the screams subsided I walked around on it all day and then realized it was really hurting so I investigated and found it to be very fat and a pretty shade of BLACK. EW. That happened about 2 weeks ago…still hurts.

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Leanne’s Lanced Lump

This one time? At band camp? I had a huge lump on my foot. And it was SO. GROSS. It grew, and it grew, and eventually it sqwished the nerves and I couldn’t feel my two littlest piggies!

So. I hopped in my car (on one foot! No. I lie. I walked, I just couldn’t feel two of my piggies. I mentioned that earlier.) and I went for surgery, and this SUPER DOOPER ECSTATIC PODIATRIST was SO HAPPY TO REMOVE MY LUMP! She was SO FREAKIN HAPPY! I wanted to marry her. I’ve never met someone SO HAPPY! But, alas, I’m married, she was engaged, and I’m not even a lesbian so don’t go there.

Not much of a scary foot story is it? It’s kinda hilarious. BUT I HAVE ICKY PICS! See? I always come through for you, right at the last minute.

The Lump : Before
The Lump : After

The ickiest part? It was underneath the top layer of muscle on my foot, growing like a spiderweb between my tendons and nerves. IEEEEWWWW! The end.

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Nat Bikes Barefoot

Seriously, as a child I went barefoot almost constantly (and I still dislike shoes.) I stubbed my toes more often than I care to think about, so my toes were almost constantly scabbed!

One time, I rode my bike while I was barefoot, and my big toe got caught in the pedal. Do you know what it’s like to try to walk with a bike attached to your foot? It ain’t easy, let me tell ya!

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Happy Feet’s Not-so-happy-foot

Sweet J*sus…

I had a plantars wart removed from the bottom of my right foot…under the fourth toe. It grew back and I had to go through the surgery again ugly shoe boot and all. Doctor gave me an ativan the second time around because that time I KNEW what to expect. No more feeling the needle go through the middle of the damn thing. Next thing I remember was throwing up in the drugstore parking lot…two millimeters from some woman’s open car door….

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Heather’s Broken Toe Date

I broke my toe when I pushed my leg into my jeans so forcefully (I was late for a date with my husband) that it broke when it kicked the floor.

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Dena’s Disappearing Wart

I had this planter’s wart on the bottom of my foot. It kept getting bigger, and bigger. It was ugly, and I had it during the summer. I didn’t want to get it cut off because that would mean I wouldn’t be able to go into the water. I bought evey kind of wart pad known to mankind. It would get soft and swollen, and even yuckier looking. Fall came, and all kinds of things came up that were far worse than the wart…One day in March I looked at my foot and the damn thing was gone. I have no idea how it happened. This was two years ago, and there’s no trace of it.

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Vicki’s Treadmill Incident

Okay, since you asked. This morning I was on the treadmill and I got so absorbed in a news story that I threw my hands up in the air and said, “Yeesh! You dope” (at you know who) and I did a George Jetson right off the back of the machine. And I caught my barefoot (ya, I do it barefoot) between the belt and the base and tore all the skin off the top of my foot. So now it’s that nasty seepy bloody kind of wound. Good? You asked…maybe I’ll go blog that. :-)
(She did post about it, btw)

If you vote for me, I’ll post a follow-up picture, minus the sock. Because today, it continues to seep and weep that clear yellow stuff plus it’s all black and blue. Plus Rich found a piece of my skin stuck in the treadmill. Plus, I have a tiny piece of rubber imbedded in my instep that I can’t bring myself to pull out.

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Mary’s Amputation

I have one for you. I had to have surgery last spring because I had a growth on the bone of my middle toe. The surgeon had to AMPUTATE the end of my toe. I no longer have a toenail on that foot. 10 toes. 9 toenails.
No pedicures for the rest of my life.

MY toe situation involved an actual TUMOR. Benign. But a TUMOR nonetheless. And my nail will NEVER grow back. Except, actually, one tiny little sliver of the nail does try and grow in and it just makes it look even worse somehow. But Josh will still rub my tired feet at night. How’s that for undying devotion?

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Kenju’s Lawnmower Accident

Do I have a story for you??!! Many years ago, I cut my big toe in a lawn mower accident, and had to have 22 stitches in it. It got infected and I had to keep my foot wet for 3 weeks so it wouldn’t heal over the infected area. While it was wet, the plantar wart on the ball of my foot began to spread, and at the end of it - I had almost 3 square inches of the sole of my foot covered in plantar warts.

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6:15 pm EST - VOTING CLOSED

The winner will be announced Friday evening. I know you can’t wait!

**Note to self (and any of you trying to keep your last meal down) : Do not ever,
I repeat- EVER- type the words “foot injury” into Google Images.**