So in a follow up to the cottage entry where I experienced more than my usual share of injury, I’ve finally made some progress with my right big toenail, in that it has finally been extracted.

See, the injury happened mostly on the right hand side of the nail, there was still living connected nailbed on the left side, and I was worried what would happen if it healed like that, where it would form a sort of giant hangnail where the dead nail was connected to the right with fresh nail and to the left with old nail. So I resolved to try to get the whole thing to disconnect so it could heal completely without complication.

So after a couple of weeks of playing with it, the last bit that was hooked down the side came free, to some discomfort, and rather a lot of bleeding. I washed the nail and put it back on, to guide the growth of new nail, and to protect it a bit, but the thing does still weep nasty fluid, but it should be okay.

I have pictures (I would have put pictures of the actual cottage trip up, but I screwed that up to, another time perhaps).

Shot 1, the toe at rest with nail, grossness factor 0.2, just looks like a dead nail
Shot 2, the toenail being pulled out, grossness factor 0.6, but can’t see anything yet
Shot 3, the damaged nailbed, grossness factor 0.9, icky, viewer/sana’a discretion advised
Shot 4, the nail alone in hand, grossness factor 0.7, just the nail, mostly clean

I’m going to a cottage in a couple weeks time, I wonder which bits will fall off me next