The end of a era

So we have finally reached the end of my long painful and interesting journey. I noticed in the last couple of days that the base of the nail, what used to be the cuticle had begun to erode. Of course my inner child cut loose and I began to pick away at the beautiful decay. As I worked through the day schilling skateboards I couldn't stop looking at THE NAIL. Perhaps I should continue helping the erosion of my nail. To my delight the nail had now become crisp and fragile like a sundried pringles potato chip. I am quite sure if you put a microphone close enough you could hear it snap and crackle! As I continued to ponder the finality of my nail I then began to fantisize on ways to hasten the nails escape. First there was radical nail clipping. Next was the time consuming nail filing till it wore down. On and on were the possibilities. Here is how it really happened.

Upon entering the bathroom at home my eyes were drawn to a large toe nail clipper. Slightly protruding from the inner workings of the clipper was the standard micro nail file/toe gunk removal tool. Ah yes, the tip of the instrument looked perfect for exploring the nail. I was just poking around to see if it was loose when I dug in a bit deeper and lo and behold.... Up lifed the edged of the nail! Yes! I could feel freedom was just a flick away. With a boldness unknown to any stripmall manicurist I flicked the nail and off it flew exposing what you see in the photos.

Enjoy the show and I am sorry to say no more gory details, just perhaps an occasional update on the healed nail.

Relief

I bet you were wondering how the thumb was doing. There was virtually no progress until two days ago. Check out my thumb from this morning. Less swelling and 95% mobility. Notice the lack of redness. This could also be due to the fact that we were walking our dog Ruby this morning and it was 43 degrees outside. Still, a beautiful morning.

Day 6 of The Thumb

I woke up today and my thumb felt a bit better. As you can see from the photos it doesn't look better. The good looking thumb photos are from my left hand which is doing quite well.

Day 5

Here we go on day 5 of the thumb incident. Yesterday was painful at work and I decided no pain killers to see how it went bad call. I got some great sleep last nite and looking forward to walking Ruby at the beach. Todays morning pain level is low but as you can tell by the photo the swelling is still there. Right at the area where the nail goes below the skin is so tight it feels like it is going to pop.

Day 3 of The Thumb Incident

I Woke up feeling better today but the pain is kicking in due to swelling. Check out the great photos and the nice vent hole burnt into the nail. This nice accident has nixed my surfing this Thanksgiving weekend but also allowed me to write this blog on the progress of a smashed thumb. Let's see what becomes of it.

The Day After

Due to the intense pain and lack of sleep on Friday nite I didn't shoot a photo of how my thumb looked on Saturday morning. You can refer back to the first thumb photo since it looked pretty much like that. The pain was intense enough that I took my wifes advice and decided to go to to Kaiser for some medical treatment. The xray showed no broken bones but I dig get a uggghhh! from the nurse when she looked at it. The Dr. did a nice hole in my fingernail to relieve the pressure but it sure did hurt all day. Going to sleep was a pain but I woke up feeling much better.

The Crush

As you noticed from my last post you can feel the impending pain. Just imagine your thumb turned sideways to the closing gap of the garage door panels. There was a slight delay as I slammed the door down to the floor before I noticed the intense pain shooting from my hand. I did a check reality check and noticed to tip of my thumb had disappeared into the garage door! You would not believe how quickly I reacted and actually didn't yank my thumb out (probably would've lost my thumb) but reversed the direction of the door and was able to save my opposable digit.