CycleChat Investigates - Pain!!!
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classic33
Leg End Member
I'm betting that what appears at the tip of the toenail is inflexible "skin". Going on appearance there's another nail already growing under that top nail*.I am surprised how long it is taking to grow out. It was about 25% worse than that originally so at this rate it could well take another year and a half!
I can't keep the nail because I keep cutting it. I would have to let it grow 2 or 3 cm beyond the end of the toe before cutting it in order to be able to keep it in one piece!
It'll grow at around a 1/16 of an inch a month. Half as fast as your fingernails.
*Attached down the left-hand side only. Nothing holding the two nails under the blood.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
There definitely IS - that grotty bit sticks well proud of where the nail would originally have been.
Fortunately, apart from the toe stubbing incident itself, it has not been painful. I do worry about the whole lot potentially falling off though!
Chief Broom
Veteran
Stuck a garden fork right through my toe once...even wrote a poem about it. 
Ouch!
A beautiful spring day
the Blackbirds singing sweetly
as I thrust the fork into the warming soil.
That my toe was interfaced
between tine and loam
came as quite a surprise.
I did comment to a friend
at the time
of my impaled condition.
We went to A+E
the garden remained undug
and the Robin missed his breakfast.
Ouch!
A beautiful spring day
the Blackbirds singing sweetly
as I thrust the fork into the warming soil.
That my toe was interfaced
between tine and loam
came as quite a surprise.
I did comment to a friend
at the time
of my impaled condition.
We went to A+E
the garden remained undug
and the Robin missed his breakfast.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
This thread is making me feel sick 🤢. Yes Lego hurts but I think a plug hurts worser. I've stepped on broken glass before, hurts at first but is agony when the bits inside start to move around
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I vaguely recall painful foot-Lego interactions, but those would have been 60-odd years ago and the memories are fading.
Yes - standing on an upturned plug when not wearing shoes IS bloody painful!
classic33
Leg End Member
When both parts of the nail reach the tip of the toe, that inflexible "skin" will grow over the end taking both parts will take some cutting. Close an 1/8 of an inch thick down the left-hand side.
I cut the nail off when it cleared the base of the nail. Yours will slowly lift as the blood dries out.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Dunno about the ones in Devon - but the ones in North Wales damn well hurt!!!!
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
An early lead for 3 pin plug as the most excruciating pain a human can endure. Lego is some way behind in 2nd place, and land mine a relatively comfortable experience wsy back in 3rd place.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
When I had a spell in hospital as a kid, the lad in the next bed had fallen out of a tree onto one of those old-fashioned fences with spikes on top, and he proudly showed me both the entry and exit wound ...
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
All fine and dandy, but its not like an entry and exit wound from a Lazy Dog.
Broadside
Guru
- Location
- Fleet, Hants
That’s what I was thinking. A proper high speed little toe stub where you’re scared to look down afterwards because it actually feels like it was probably ripped off in the incident.
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I worked with a young bobby who half severed his toe stubbing itnon the furniture at home. The docs saved it, but apparently its now so deformed even Hannibal Lecter wouldn't consider eating it. Im pretty sure he wears slippers indoors now.
