Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Surgery :(

Ok so yesterday was surgery on my first big toe. I had the ingrown toe nails on each side of my right foot big toe removed. My appt was at 1 pm and I didnt know what to expect and let me tell you that it was way worse than I thought it would be! So first I go into the room and they sit me up in a car and put my feet straight in front of me and he gets a HUGE needle and says ok this will hurt and this is the worst part. O great, that is always good to hear. So he injected the needle in my toe 5 times and squeezes in the medication (Licatin) and counts to 10 and every time he counts he says ok this will feel like fire for 10 seconds each time. O great. AND IT DID! So after those 2 minutes of death pains my toe is numb alot faster than he expected. So he comes back take some plyers and pinches my skin all the way to make sure I am numb and I can feel pressure but no pain so I said ok I am numb I guess and he starts the worst thing I have ever seen in my life!
He take a knife and just cuts right down my nail about an inch from the outside of the right side of my nail and blood is gushing everywhere. And I am about to puke! Then he cuts down the other side of my nail and down into my skin as well. And still blood EVERYWHERE! And then he does the other side and he clips the whole nail off and I am like what in the world, that is way too much toe nail to cut off! I am going to have the ugliest big toes in the whole world and by this time I am wondering why in the world I ever agreed to this! I just want to run out but my foot is numb and bloody and so that wont work! Anyway then he stick some cue tips covered in Phenol down the sides of my toes and is shoving them in there like the liposuction tubes- real rough. He said that this is liquid that will create a 3rd degree burn in my nail and never allow it to grow back. By this time I am sweating horribly and hot and I black out bc it is too much to watch! IT was HORRIBLE. So they bring me water and paper towels for my head and finally let me lay back so I cant see the rest (although he was done so it was a lil too late for that). I have to sit there for a while and then they let me leave so that I didnt pass out completely. So then I walk my 3 miles to my car in the parking lot w a numb foot in the 110 degree sun and am still on the verge of passing out. I get to my car and realize- I cant drive! My foot is numb. There is no way. So I sit in my car for an hour and then drive home pretty much w my left foot! Good thing I wasnt too far away. And guess what? I have to do this all over again next Wednesday on my other foot!!!
I am horrified!!
At least Mandrae will be w me but I am scared outta my mind. I wish they would have done it all at once but she sd that since I am preg that they have to wait.
And on top of that the dr kept telling me that the medication should be ok for the baby. That is not reassuring and all I can do is hope that this wont affect the baby. That is the scariest part of it all.
Here are pics of my foot now at work. I cant take off that pink stuff later on tonite.




2 comments:

  1. Awww, it is a pretty post-op toe!

    Where's all the nasty buh-lud you were telling me about??

    I PROMISE. You will have pretty toes and you won't regret doing this later, right Katrina?

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  2. This is all to prepare you for childbirth.

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