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Originally Posted by Cairo94507
I remember hitting my thumb with a hammer as a kid. Went to the doctor and he took a very small drill bit and by hand drilled a tiny hole into the top of my nail, over the bloody area. As soon as he pierced the nail it was like a fountain as the blood squirted out. Immediate relief. Put some antibiotic on it and a bandage and I was good to go.
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As a kid I smashed my big toe and broke it in 11 places. The nail was black in no time, and it hurt like hell. My mom took me to Tripler Army Hospital. I knew I was in trouble when 4 LARGE orderlies walked in. The doc heated up a needle in a Bunsen burner to glowing red, and the four orderlies split up to hold either a leg or an arm and pin me down to the table and told me not to move. The doc pressed the glowing hot needle into my toe nail, and it squirted blood almost to my knee, and it was almost organismic at the instant relief from throbbing pain.
They put me in a cast up to my knee.
This is me in my cast receiving a Tortured Toe award in the spring of 1969.