Update On The Toe

On Wednesday I went back to the doctor to get my toe checked up on. This wasn't a very pleasant experience either!! Geez, I'm never going to want to go back to the doctors after this is done. So I sat down and the conversation started out the same as it did last time...he asked me if I was alergic to any anesthetics and I told him no again. I wondered what he was asking me this for because I already had my surgery! The nurse then handed me the same clipboard and paper and told me to sign it to give the doctor permission to take out a little sliver of my toe nail. I then began to think that they were mistaken and they had thought that they had never done the surgery on me, so I said "Oh you already did that last week". The nurse then informed me that they had to do it again to kill the roots!!! I immediately began freaking out because I didn't want the doctor to stick me with the needle again because IT HURTS, but the doctor then took off my bandaid and took one look at my toe and said my toe had a "hot infection" still and that I needed to come back next week for the surgery. Ahhhh!! Scary! I don't want to go back! Oh well, it will get me out of my comfort zone (which is something that we've been learning a lot about in choir...we are required to do something every few weeks that will get us out of our comfort zone and then to write about it). The doctor wrapped my toe up in a big wad of gauze and then gave me some stuff to soak my toe in to help the infection go down. He told me to soak the whole toe even with the gauze on it and especially at night...so that's what my pictures are of. I have to wear a bag over my foot at night so I don't get my bed all wet from the wet gauze. haha! We joke around about it here.