Toes

We took Tom to the Dr. yesterday for his chronic ingrown toenail. I thought he was just going to examine it and schedule us for treatment at a later time. Oh no. The nurse took us right into the procedure room. The Dr. came in, Novocaine’d up the toe, took out his scissors and whacked off about half of Tom’s big toenail. Then he cauterized the nail bed and the nurse bandaged him up and we were on our way. Whew! It actually doesn’t look too bad. Tom says it’s throbby, but he put some antibiotic cream on it today, took some ibuprophen for the pain and went on his merry way. This is a problem he’s had for about 8 to 12 months and suddenly it’s all gone. He’s looking forward to being able to lunge and wear real shoes again. Maybe his fencing will improve ;) I know I’ll be happy when he isn’t constantly showing me his goopy old toe and asking me if I think it looks infected, so it’s all good.