Just peeled the nail off of my left big toe a few minutes ago and I took pictures!
I’m a runner, and from time to time a long run and a new pair of shoes join forces to blacken a toenail. At that point it’s not a matter of if it’s going to come off; it’s a matter of when.
The glorious event has been a few weeks in coming, with it getting looser and looser with each passing day, like a loose tooth. Once I saw it was ready to go, I reached for the camera and then finished the job.
I showed it to our teenagers – they responded appropriately.
How about you? When was the last time you lost a toenail?
I’ve got the one on my right big toe growing back right now…
I lost it about 3 months ago, so it is almost fully grown back now. I lost it when the glass door from my oven fell of and landed on it - twice within the space of 10 minutes!
I had the sides of my big toenails removed (and the “roots” cauterized) a couple of years ago, after suffering from ingrown nails for awhile.
I’m told that one of the ingrowns they had to remove was “as big as a guitar pick,” but I didn’t see it myself. I’m willing to concede that it may have been half as large as a guitar pick.
I never lost a toenail, but once I slammed the car door on my sister’s foot and she lost a toenail. I thought she was going to get out on the other side.
I’m not looking at pictures or videos, because I lost a toenail when I was a little kid. I pulled a cabinet over on myself (swinging on the door…not too bright) and bashed the FUCK! outta my foot. Suffice to say it’s ugly. And painful. And the re-grow is kind of gross too.
Some 30 years ago, when I was about 11, I opened the freezer, and a huge frozen solid roast fell on my right foot. It was the first time I ever cussed in front of my mom! Anyway, net result was that, later that summer, the toenail fell off while I was in the swimming pool. The best part about it was that my sister, two years older than me, was totally skeeved out by the thought of a disembodied toenail floating around in the pool, and wouldn’t swim in it for about a week!
I refuse to put these photos as clickable links: innocent folks might accidentally click on them :eek:
Beware: these are photos of me ripping off my big toenail!
Actually, this is quite common for runners. I think the 15mi I ran on Sunday simply urged it along its way. I much prefer to lose toenails this way: it doesn’t hurt at all! Unfortunate souls like Kalhoun, Iguana Boy, and Lillith Fair’s sister lose them after traumatic bashings that make them turn black and cause excruciating unbearable throbbing pain. In sharp contrast, when I get them, I simply notice a tight spot in the shoe after several miles, get home and note the toenail is looking bruised and think “Hmmmm… I wonder if I’m going to lose that one.” A month or so later I get my answer. No pain involved!
The one I lost has did grow back, but it’s never been the same. It seems “detached” from the toe at the top of the nail bed. I agree with the no pics thing. Fingernail and toenail trauma just. . .ewwww. :eek:
