so, broken toe?
 

Stubbed it on furniture either yesterday or the day before. Started hurting a lot after a short motorcycle ride yesterday afternoon, then hurt a lot last night. This morning it looks like this. I assume it isn't worth a trip to the doc as I don't think there is any treatment for it.

http://nostatic.com/photos/mytoe.jpg

My guess is that it's broken. They would probably just tape it to the one to the left.

Are you using a lawn mower to trim your nails?

ha - I have fairly messed up nail beds from years of my feet getting abused in sports. I lost track of how many time my feet got stepped on playing basketball. You really don't want to see the other foot.

On the positive side in that photo you can see there part of my foot ground off in the moto accident and it is mostly back :D

In my professional opinion, it's probably broken. You just need to slip a sock over that foot and tough it out until it heals. :cool:

Yep I treat them just like I do broken fingers. Just tape it to the one to the left, take some aspirin and drive on. Elevate it whenever you can.

Tell Noah930 it's a really ugly hand and he'll work on it for free..

I broke the three little ones on my left foot after dropping a transmission on them.

Doctor taped them up and sent me on my way. Not much you can do.

Careful... my wife hurt her toe a few years ago. Xrays didn't show anything, so they had her tape it to the neighboring toe. It ended up healing crooked, they re-Xrayed and found the fracture. Now her toe is crooked and causes serious pain and they say the only way to fix it is surgery.

I broke a toe years ago, taped it to the neighbor, it healed fine. No problems.

YMMV

Could be or you broke a blood vessel.

BTW, cut them nails with a dull hacksaw?:eek:

Probably....recover as noted above.

Suggestion, you need to wear wider shoes.

I did the same to number 3 and it was purple/black like that. Just taped it to its neighbor and limped around for a week or so.
However, if it were the big toe, I'd see a doc.

Yep. Tape it to the next one and suck it up.

...and are you trimming your nails with an angle grinder? :D

I'll add: I think it's better that you tape it to the weaker neighbor rather than the stronger neighbor to try to avoid the healing crooked thing.

Ouch! Been there and done that but with the three smaller toes.
That trim job looks more like the rip and tear with a pliers method. ;)

lawn mower, dull hacksaw, angle grinder and pliers. We're off to a good start...

Maybe some of you guys can give me the number of a good pedi shop that you use :D

Sure! It's on the corner of... oh, wait. That was a joke, wasn't it?

Nevermind.

I figured you were just using your teeth.

I aint into all that foo foo stuff, but daaim dude!
Here, try this guy:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1325638412.jpg

Ordinarily, I would say that a dude getting a pedi is a bit unnecessary but in this case, I would probably pay for it.

I certainly hope you and your neighbor were on good speaking terms!

This could be a start:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1325639845.jpg

If you end up doing the whole room(ceilings and floor), you'll be right at home with the parfers:D.

Did you stub it on a coyote?

Buddy splint it to the 3rd toe. If you use tape, careful about it swelling. I like to use 1" coban/medi-rip/vet wrap for that sort of stuff. If the toe hurts but the foot is okay, I would not worry about it too much.

Shaun's was worse, fracture dislocation rather than just a fracture.

Lay off the drunken judo Todd.

Old Old OLD Joke from about 4th - 6th grade elementry school.


"Who do you call when you break your Toe"??????????????????












wait for it...............


















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A "Tow Truck"..........





grins.

I think I'm just going to bubblewrap myself going forward...

The rest of the foot is fine. Well as fine as it was before as I don't have feeling everywhere due to nerve damage from the other coyote incident.

I think I've seen better looking feet in a bucket...all by themselves. jeebus.

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If I could stop laughing at this I would post something worth reading!! LMFAO!!

I stubbed my toe on my bedframe last year. It looked pretty similar. It hurt for about 6 weeks. During that time I had fluoro'ed it in the OR (we don't have an x-ray machine in the office) and confirmed that yep, it was broken. I just let it be and it's healed. No real issues with it. If you're willing to come on over to the Valley, I can fluoro it for you anytime I'm in the office. We can meet on a weekend if that's more convenient. I don't live far away from the office.

The doctor has spoken.

My nails look better but the bruise and swelling looked the same when I broke my toe. Sorry Todd.

Fluoroscope, cool, can you see yourself moving the toes in real time?

Yep. Useful to be able to look at stuff "real-time" like a video x-ray. The downside is that the resolution on a fluoroscope isn't nearly as good as from a properly done x-ray.

Well that, and the big dose of radiation.

Plenty handy for fishing insulin needles out of people's feet though.

They usually stop hurting in a couple or three days.

A guy meets a girl at a bar and talks her into going home with him. As they start getting undressed, she looks at his feet and says "OMG, what happened to your feet?" He says "when I was young I had tolio".

Oh, was all she said.

When he took off his pants, she said "OMG what happened to your legs?"
He said "when I was young I had knee-sels".

Oh.

Then he took off his underwear and she said, "don't tell me. Small c**ks."

Hope that isn't too much for the sensors.

What is your fluoro typically used on? Unless cal'd for diagnostic use, I wouldn't use it on a person. Xray radiation is cumulative.

Ran the 2000 Boston Marathon with a broken toe. When you tape it, make darn sure that you don't tape it tight to the neighboring toe. Just enough to prevent it from hurting. A wee bit of movement stimulates the bone to heal faster. I broke the same bone a year earlier and also ran the 1999 Boston Marathon with a freshly healed broken toe.

That was my first thought, but didn't want to "out" him.

'melican dokter all a rike....doan worry, two eek it fall off....

Why don't U just admit that U use a Weed Whacker ...

And so kids, what lesson have we learned here today?
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That's right, never post a close up of your feet on the interwebs ;)


Coulda been worse tho, you coulda had really hairy feet:
http://my350z.com/forum/exterior-and-interior/208462-had-to-refuse-body-kit-delivery.html

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1325710827.jpg


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