Drilling a hole in daughter's toenail - Page 4

diebitter · #31 10-31-2005, 03:13 PM

Yeah, I had this done as a kid in a casualty unit. It wasn't a drill, he heated an opened paperclip(!!!) to red hot, and stuck it in the nail (finger, in this case). All this dark blood came out, but I didn't feel a thing. Felt a lot better afterwards.

#32 10-31-2005, 03:23 PM

I can't believe people go to the doctor over little things like this.
I got my thumb crushed moving firewood. Took a needle and went in under the nail. My thumb was hurting so bad, I felt very little additional pain. The blood oozed out, and everything was fine.

jakethebake · #33 10-31-2005, 03:25 PM

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I can't believe people go to the doctor over little things like this.
I got my thumb crushed moving firewood. Took a needle and went in under the nail. My thumb was hurting so bad, I felt very little additional pain. The blood oozed out, and everything was fine.

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Agreed. But we're men. We were talking about Dex's little girl.

jakethebake · #34 10-31-2005, 03:28 PM

One of the sickest feelings of my life was when I squashed my sons hand in a door way. He was about 1-1/2 and I didn't even know he was standing there. He had his hand shoved between the door and the frame on the hinge side. I was just shoving and shoving and couldn't figure out for like 5 seconds why the door wouldn't close. Finally I look down and he's standing there in shock staring at me as I squash his hand over and over. I think that may be the guiltiest I've ever felt about something. I felt sick.

LALDAAS · #35 10-31-2005, 03:40 PM

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One of the sickest feelings of my life was when I squashed my sons hand in a door way. He was about 1-1/2 and I didn't even know he was standing there. He had his hand shoved between the door and the frame on the hinge side. I was just shoving and shoving and couldn't figure out for like 5 seconds why the door wouldn't close. Finally I look down and he's standing there in shock staring at me as I squash his hand over and over. I think that may be the guiltiest I've ever felt about something. I felt sick.

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This is one of my earliest memories of my brother and I as kids. He was 2 or 3 and I was 4 or 5.

We had just gotten out of the car and pops was yelling at us for fighting. He slammed the car door, I mean completly closed and there is my little brother standing there with his hand closed in the door [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img].

I remember clearly the look in his face..It was like....WTF!

He didnt even cry until my pops freaked out it was amazing!

Dominic · #36 10-31-2005, 03:47 PM

I thought this the subject of the thread was going to be a euphamism for something really nasty. I'm disappointed.

Blarg · #37 10-31-2005, 03:52 PM

I had the doctor do this to me. I dropped a weight plate on my big toe once. Of course, I tried to play it off like it didn't hurt or didn't happen...

Anyway, same thing happened with my toe. Tried to ignore it, but the pain was so bad it actually woke me up. So I went into the doctor and the bum charged me over $200! Here's what he did.

Took this little thing that looked like a pen and had a hot tip. Carefully touched it quickly to the middle of the nail on the big toe a couple times, which it burned through really quickly. POW out came some liquid -- a pretty decent amount of blood mostly. Then he dabbed it with some swabs, smeared a little disinfectant over the hole, and wrapped the toe in some gauze. Whole thing took maybe two minutes, and I was out about $230 or so for it. Sheesh.

No pain whatsoever, by the way. The pain was in not having the thing fixed, not fixing it. The toenail has no nerves, just the part underneath it, which had already been separated out by the swelling. I wouldn't hesitate to do this with my kid, and would try. This was really someething absolutely anyone could do. But I would do it with something hot, like the doctor did, not by pressure. Pressure would be very painful, and if you break through the toenail with pressure you would jam whatever you're using right into the raw flesh of the toe and probably pretty hard. You'd lose a lot of kid trust doing that.

I'd heat up the tine of a metal comb, fork, icepick, or maybe needle till it was very hot, after sterilizing it. And wear glasses so the blood doesn't squirt out into your eye. It's under a lot of pressure there under the toenail.

Normally I wouldn't say for regular people to do a doctor-type thingy, but this was so quick and painless and obviously required so little skill that in this case, I wouldn't hesitate.

MuckerFish · #38 10-31-2005, 04:28 PM

Geeze, I've had to do this so many times, it's ridiculous. But then again, I am a doctor.

Truth is it's not that hard to do, but I've had a few people come in who have tried to do similar things themselves and botched it up. A couple of things can go wrong. The biggest worry is developing an infection called a chronic paronychia, which depending on the organism can be a real bitch to treat. Also, an assesment needs to be made of the nail and the nail plate to see if the nail should be removed right then and there. But the above are unusual situations and based on your initial description it's probably no biggie.

But it is your daughter, just see a doc, better safe than sorry.

Dex · #39 10-31-2005, 10:53 PM

Just got done taking the kids trick or treating. It turns out that after she saw the doctor, he didn't think it was bad enough to do the procedure.