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It's a large wart.
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It's huge.
Warts are very contagious, easy to pick up in public places
where other people are barefoot.
Sometimes with contaminated instruments, you can spread it.
This is the hard part for you.
You have a bunion.
This is what could have been making it worse.
Yeah.
A bunion is basically a bony change in the first big toe.
You said that you think this is genetic?
Yes.
Mom, do you have a bunion too?
No, my husband.
Thank you, Dad.
Yeah, thanks to my dad.
Instead of having a nice straight toe,
that big toe is now in a sideways position,
and the only way to correct that is through orthopedic surgery.
Your best option would be to surgically remove this.
I 100% agree.
Cut that out and get it over with.
A no-nonsense kind of girl.
Go big or go home.
Because she has two warts, we're
going to numb her big toe, and then we're
going to numb the ball of her foot to make sure she
doesn't feel a single thing.
Oh, my god.
I know it looks really scary, but the needle
I'm actually going to use--
Sorry I'm shaking.
That's OK-- is very, very thin.
Very good.
I didn't even feel you flinch.
I know it was really tough, but we got one more to do.
Oh, god.
This is going to be a strong pinch.
That's the honest truth.
The soles of our feet contain more
nerve endings per square inch than anywhere else on our body.
This is not going to be pleasant for her.
It's probably one of the toughest
injections you can get.
Oh, my god.
I hate this.
Like, my whole legs are shaking.
You've just got to relax.
OK.
It'll be OK.
One, two, three.
Just breathe.
Holy [bleep].
You OK, Marcy?
Yep.
You're a trooper.
No pain right now?
Nope.
You know why?
Because we're done.
We made it.
Thank you.
Hallelujah.
I'm going to give you props.
Like, that was really hard.
Nice job.
I know.
Are you OK standing, Mom?
Or do you want to sit back down?
I'm OK with here.
Anytime you need to sit down, just put your seat down
and we'll be OK.
I'm OK.
Whoa, Mom's tough too.
Look at her, standing by your side.
That's my youngest one.
She is.
Yeah, my baby.
The princess.
It's really nice to see mother and daughter together.
Mom's giving her support.
It's not an easy procedure.
This is a big thing.
OK, here we go.
We're going to do the big toe first.
And I'm just putting a tourniquet on, OK,
just to reduce any bleeding.
So just relax and breathe.
Anything sharp?
Nope.
I don't feel anything.
I don't even feel you, like, putting anything in there.
I'm just staring at it.
I'm using my mind power.
Yeah.
So you have too little satellite ones that are just
popping out from the main one.
So I'm not only removing the main cluster
but just these other spots that are
technically kind of spreading.
Marcy told me that another specialist treated
this wart topically before.
Clearly that didn't work.
It spread on top of the tip of my toe.
I went to that specialist.
And five treatments in, and he said, OK, it's all good.
And it just grew back.
The treatments haven't improved the warts.
And I think they've even gotten worse.
What happens when we do topical treatment,
we're trying to damage just the top layer of skin
where the wart's living.
But if the wart isn't being scraped down enough
or the acid just isn't penetrating the wart enough,
we're not going to get rid of this big plantar wart.
And that's where we have to use a more aggressive treatment.
So now I get to use my ice-cream scooper.
We're literally just pulling this wart off the bottom layer
of the skin.
This one's pretty deep.
It's deep.
Really?
So this is the big thing.
When I first saw this, I didn't know that the wart
was going to be so deep.
I thought it was pretty thin.
It's very deep.
Oh, god.
I'm happy you went this route.
I didn't know that it's going to be that bad, this toe.
I thought this was going to be the easy one.
But I guess I was wrong.
OK, I'm going to trim it off.
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Ew.
What's that?
That's the wart?
That's the wart.
Oh!
Are you feeling OK, Mom?
Do you need to go to the other room?
Are you OK?
Mom?
She's OK.
Mom?
Let me pull you out.
My god.
Just relax.
Did she just faint?
Yep.
Is she OK?
Yeah, she's OK.
Oh, wow.
Once I know Mom is OK, I can finish
cleaning out Marcy's toe wart.
There's no blood.
I removed the chunk of it.
Now I'm really just cleaning up the area,
making sure there's nothing else left behind.
Mom, you doing OK?
Yeah.
There's Mom.
She's doing OK out there.
Oh, Mom.