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I’m going to go against the trend here and say that you should not seek medical attention. In fact, you are best served by standing on the foot and trying to get the nail in nice and deep. Maybe go grab a hammer. If any part is still sticking out, be sure to move it around. Puss, weird shades of skin color, and excruciating pain are all signs of healing.
(FWIW, I’m not a doctor)
This is all false and very bad advice also.
The OP didn’t explicitly say he removed the nail yet. For all you know, he could still be nailed to the floor. Fat lot of good this advice to “see a doctor” will do when he can’t even move.
How old are you.
What part of the world do you live in?
Do you want to lose your leg or just your foot?
Lockjaw is a real danger.
Why would you ask a group of strangers this instead of going to an ER??
“Mommy, why am I walking around in circles?”
“Shut up or I’ll nail your other foot to the floor.”
So is this.
Since it hasn’t been said in this particular thread, I’ll say it.
How in the world do people find this message board and sign up to make questions like this their very first (and often last) post?
We have shockingly low standards of admission.
I know. I was just as disappointed as you when I came to that realization.
I often think it would be a fascinating story for someone to track down all these one-and-done posters and get the back story. How did they find the board? What kind of answers were they expecting? Did they take anyone’s advice? What happened in the end?
Then I sober up and think wait, that would probably be boring as hell.
Why not assume that the Op is real and has a real problem? Somehow you think that no one has bad spelling (especially when injured) or stepping on a nail is something akin to being struck by a meteorite? Why mock him and give stupid advice? Why not just try to help the guy instead of being a jerk?
Perhaps because the advice to give - you might need a tetanus shot; go see a doctor - was given immediately. Or perhaps because that advice is so patently obvious that it boggles the mind to think someone needs to be told this by an anonymous group of strangers on a message board. Or because the OP’s concern that stepping on a nail could lead to cancer suggests a level of insincerity (or delusion) that doesn’t credibly deserve sincerity.
Five posts mentioned seeing a doctor. What more do you want?
Maybe not the subsequent dozen posts making a joke of the Op’s wound?
Did the OP ever find out how is babby formed?
Wait, someone’s being insensitive on the internet? Light the Bat Signal!
that is a penetrating question.
By that time the OP had the truth he needed.
At least this OP didn’t come back, over and over and over and over and over, re-asking the same question in 100 different ways until he gets the Truth he Wanted.