# Has anyone ever lost a toe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 4, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139 "2001-02-04T23:04:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/1 "2001-02-04T23:04:14Z")
Pure morbid curiosity here–What’s it like to lose a toe? Did it hurt a lot? How much blood did you lose? Was it necessary to go to the hospital afterwards? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/2 "2001-02-04T23:29:13Z")
I knew someone who lost his thumb - and they _replaced it_ with his toe. I also knew someone who lost his thumb, and it probably got eaten by a shark or something (he was on a fishing boat). I would guess a missing toe would need skin grafts of some kind. Maybe. Or perhaps not. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/3 "2001-02-05T01:55:35Z")
I crack myself up. Seriously, no, but I lost a toe **nail** once. It grew back. Did you have an accident? ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/4 "2001-02-05T02:15:15Z")
I’m not in any situation involving people losing toes, but I am working on thes short story that involves one character losing a toe (the baby toe on her left foot, if that clears anything up). I’d just like to have some details right. ---
**Author:** ![mfield31](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@mfield31](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mfield31)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/5 "2001-02-05T02:36:14Z")
I had a friend in high school who lost his big toe in a motorcycle accident. He was very self-conscios about it but hey, who wouldn’t be. Anyway, apparently it took him a while to adjust to no big toe because it is hard to balance without one. I wouldn’t have thought that but apparently it serves a pupose as far as keeping you uprigth while walking or standing. Looked awfully funny too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/6 "2001-02-05T02:43:18Z")
A girl I went out with in high school lost her big toe when she accidentally stuck it in the spokes of a bicycle. For what it’s worth, afterward she could _still_ outrun most of the guys. It didn’t seem to affect her balance at all, either. ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/7 "2001-02-05T03:01:45Z")
But what about the actualy moment when s/he lost the toe? ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/8 "2001-02-05T03:09:39Z")
_Some folk’ll never lose a toe, but then again some folk’ll Like Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel_ I’m sorry. I just had to sing it … ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/9 "2001-02-05T03:22:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ThisYearsGirl \* > \*\*But what about the actualy moment when s/he lost the toe? \*\* Sorry, I don’t remember any details other than she went to the emergency room and later her foot was bandaged to the size of a basketball. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/10 "2001-02-05T04:51:48Z")
Oh, Auntie Pam. You’re so witty. 🙂 Wow. I only composed this post (out of my long Sunday silence) to comment on something you’ve said. Maybe the table’s have turned. I’ve become **your** stalker. Oh and on Friends, Chandler lost the tip of his toe. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/11 "2001-02-05T12:44:24Z")
Damn you, **LNO**! You beat me to it!!! ---
**Author:** ![Stella\_Fantasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@Stella\_Fantasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stella_Fantasia)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/12 "2001-02-05T16:06:38Z")
The nail on my big toe came off this weekend. It was really gross!! It was all stinky under there because I dropped something on it a while ago so there was all this dried blood & necrotic tissue!! Eww gross! It’s OK now, though I doubt I’ll be wearing open-toes shoes anytime soon. **TYG** , how is your character losing her toe? Different injuries have varying amounts of pain, blood loss, etc., though I think unless you were Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel, you’d DEFINITELY go to the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-lost-a-toe/53139/13 "2001-02-05T16:14:56Z")
This is weird: I know a lady who lost one of the smaller toes on her left foot, because the toe had a melanoma: on the underside! That is to say, where the sun don’t shine. Obviously, in this case it was surgically removed, so it doesn’t answer the OP. I just wanted to share.