Patient: Rather see the whole thing in
Toe Bro: action.
I, so as long as you can see that's important.
It's not as fun honestly as watching the video because
like it's not super zoomed up.
You're far away.
You don't see
Patient: no slow mo.
No, it's intriguing just seeing it.
So it's like, wait, this is mine.
So I might as well, yeah, look into my own, experience it in the moment.
Toe Bro: But you got that title, man.
The title.
That is how, how did you do like a Filipino playing fiba Man, getting good.
That's
Patient: amazing.
I know
Toe Bro: that.
I'm very happy for you.
Thank you.
So we're gonna do our last little check, make sure everything's good.
So yeah, this one you're not looking anything sharp down here?
Nah.
Here.
Nah, down here.
Wow.
Nah, there you go.
Look at that.
Patient: Wow.
What?
It's deep.
Toe Bro: So come on man.
You, did you try to create some sort of engineering experiment to try to mechanic
get this, this nail out of the skin?
What'd you try to do or you've just been watching it?
I've just been watching, you know, I'm just like, you're a chemical guy.
You've been just like, Take it of what have you been applying to it.
You're
Patient: different.
I know what you use to, you know, make it not happen.
You know, say, oh, I know what that is and like that and, but you just
Toe Bro: can't get access to
Patient: it.
I just can't get access expensive and I'm not even allowed to.
Toe Bro: So first we're gonna do is get out those bad corners.
So at this stage when there's so much, what we call hyper granulation tissue
and the the toes change shape, this is the main option is just remove these
corners, get them out of the skin.
This is an actual obstacle for the body to heal those corners, and that's
why it's not able to heal itself.
It's literally, think of it like a foreign object.
Yeah.
So at this stage, conservative treatment doesn't work really well.
We're gonna get these corners out, give you an antibiotic.
Stop them from ever growing back and then you're done with it.
So we're gonna see kind of the damage you've been doing underneath or the Wow.
So really wide.
That's wide.
Wow.
And see the curb.
Lemme get some of the, we'll see, you can actually see the nail itself.
It's Wow
Patient: that was in there, eh,
Toe Bro: very wide, right?
Yep.
Patient: So what this guy has.
Toe Bro: Now, did you cut down the side at all or not really?
You've just been leaving it?
I've
Patient: been, I mean the, the one to my right.
Yes.
But the left one, I just left it as is.
I even
Toe Bro: tried it.
See, it's not even that bad, right?
Yeah.
But the work boot is a big issue if it's too snug and now you're told grew in size,
it's just continued to put more pressure.
Yeah.
So gonna get some of this dead skin off.
This is that hyper granulation to show.
I wanna see what's going on underneath.
We're gonna clean some of this up afterwards, so very fleshy.
So all that tissue is basically new blood vessels, uhhuh, and it's abnormal tissue
cuz the body's sending more tissue.
Just try to close up the corners, but because there's something blocking
it, that tissue is nowhere to go and it just starts building up.
I see.
So making sure the cut everyth underneath is all good.
Patient: That size is good
Toe Bro: side.
I can clean up a little more, very long nail underneath.
Patient: Pretty crazy,
Toe Bro: huh?
Patient: Well, yeah.
Just look at it right now.
I didn't even know how thick that was.
Yeah, so
Toe Bro: if there was no tourniquet on here, this thing
would be gushing like crazy.
So this is gonna be a bleeder, and that's because again, all this abnormal tissue.
So don't be afraid if it bleeds through the bandage I put on today.
You're gonna have to put this or change it multiple times throughout the day.
Yeah, and that's completely normal.
After one to two days, it'll usually stop bleeding.
The anti-black will help shrink the tissue.
Now the body can actually close up those corners and that's it.
So we're gonna start putting the acid and then I'm gonna clean up a little
bit more of the dead skin afterwards.
Okay.
I don't want it to bleed too much because if there's too much blood,
it'll actually dilute the acid.
But this happens to a lot of Filipinos.
Oh yeah.
I kind of really want to go to the Philippines and just like set up a clinic,
pop up a shop, and just be there all day.
Ripping out all those ingrows down there.
Just do it
Patient: to like, to be honest, I haven't even been to the Philippines yet.
Toe Bro: Me
Patient: either.
Well, right.
And now like, you know, planes are expensive
Toe Bro: and try, you know, I heard it's like three grand if you get
close, if you don't book ahead.
Yeah.
That's nuts.
It's,
Patient: yeah, imagine that.
Eh, imagine if you were to book it like, I don't know, from one a month
before it's can be skyrocketing.
It's like everyone wants to go home and now
Toe Bro: it's sad.
Now, you know, most people are going back home.
It's cuz someone's dying.
Right.
It's just like, it's just sad.
Patient: Yeah.
Toe Bro: Now, is there a big difference in the levels of engineers
coming from different schools?
I went to Waterloo and obviously there's, they're pretty known for their math
program and, and some engineer program.
Are they pretty good or is it all pretty much the same?
I
Patient: mean, they follow like the same like, you know, like I guess they have
like their own booklet and they follow it.
But I guess the teaching style is what's different.
And like the name of the school, like I know a lot of like people
from Waterloo, like I, I think.
If you are a, uh, computer engineering of software engineering, those
guys from Cali, Silicon Valley, they'll be like, yeah, I like
that guy cuz he's from Waterloo
Toe Bro: and all that, that stuff.
Gotcha.
But that, I don't know.
Other than that, it's You got your, you're an engineer.
Yeah.
Gotcha.
I still can't.
That's, that's very impressive, man.
You stayed, you stayed away from all your Filipino cousins, right?
You didn't hang out with them too much?
Nah.
That's their trouble.
Patient: They are, they are.
Some of them still has to pursue your basketball players and come on.
You know, just, I'm not saying, you know, like, don't play basketball.
I'm just saying there's other stuff to do out there than just, you know, ball
Toe Bro: and that's the problem.
But they're such a good time.
Yeah.
They have too much of a good time.
Yeah.
And of course, Filipinos, they know how to, they know how to have fun.
They know how to talk to girls and there's always that whole concept, right?
Oh yeah.
I'm so impressed, man.
Yeah, that's, that's really awesome for you.
I don't get to meet too many Filipino engineers, really, honestly.
So that's really, really good.
That's shocking.
Actually, if I ever go back to fiba, I think I gotta start playing
like on the super senior team now.
I don't think so.
No.
I'm like 35, over 35 now.
So that's gonna be like the seniors, that's the senior team now.
That's actually funny.
Yeah.
Even though I, in my head, I feel like I'm young.
Nope.
I'm on the senior
Patient: team.
No,
Toe Bro: but I think the seniors is.
Well, they play rough too, so.
Oh good.
Come on.
Cause they can't run, they just bang each other all his life.
They use
Patient: their whole body to attack you.
Right.
Toe Bro: And of course everyone's got braces on their
knees and they're all Yeah,
Patient: I'm my knee brace, brace, arm brace.
I'm like, what else is gonna be in pain
Toe Bro: after I play with you guys?
And then they're all sitting there, they can't move the next day.
Well,
Patient: what I like about those guys, some of them,
they like to trash talk a lot.
Oh, whatever your age I used to be.
I used to dunk and all that.
I'm just like, oh,
Toe Bro: come on.
That makes me mad and jealous, man.
You guys got monster casts.
I just think of EOS calves all the time.
EO has the best ones.
Patient: When I look up, it's like, I don't know how he does it.
Toe Bro: So this is rubbing alcohol to neutralize that acid.
So we have killed those corners.
Not coming back.
Now in your case, you got all that abnormal flesh.
We're just gonna clean the corners out a little bit.
You might have seen some of the videos where I take some crazy skin out.
Yeah, we don't really have to do that today.
Most of your tissue here is relatively normal.
It's just the inside that we're gonna clean up.
Okay.
If feels was more like a deformed toe, which was like double
the size, then I would have to do something more aggressive.
But this is just gonna be a very light scraping of.
This bad stuff inside here.
Patient: I can't wait for this to be on YouTube
Toe Bro: so I can see the whole thing right here, like where I am.
It's like, it's hard to see.
It's hard to see.
Yeah.
Let me get the good there.
There we go.
Yeah, it's um, that's why I said it's not the same.
No,
Patient: that's why
Toe Bro: it's interesting man, and really like, what are you feeling?
Nothing, honestly, it's pretty crazy,
Patient: right?
Yeah.
Toe Bro: So getting some of this dead stuff off, all unhealthy
tissue fried up, make some Chik go.
You know what's so great?
So my wife is Cuban.
Wow.
Yeah.
And, uh, couple my, one of my first times in Cuba.
We're walking around and I see Ang k I was like, what?
They had Filipino lach here.
I never knew Ang was like Spanish.
I thought it was like just a Filipino thing,
Patient: man.
Yeah.
I, I was three years old, you know, knowing about that.
Wow.
I thought, I thought Laun is just Filipino.
Yeah.
Toe Bro: No, it's, it's, it's a Spanish thing.
It's not, it's not Filipino.
Wow.
Yeah, I know because when I saw the junk
Patient: I was like, wow, guys, my dad that, and let me see if he knows.
Toe Bro: It is so crazy.
So what's gonna happen?
Normal tissue's gonna fill into those corners.
Another person's, uh, toe right there.
Nope, that's your, that's your toe.
No way.
And that's now wasn't that bad.
Patient: See, like, I don't even
Toe Bro: remember it, honestly.
And you were working with that thing?
Oh yeah.
Still towed and everything.
It's been two months, no pain.
Not at all.
And you said you, you really forgot what it was like to have an ingrow?
Yeah, just like that.
Patient: Just like that.
If I were to like hit my toe, it's brush it off back then it's like
if I were to hit it, oh my God, I gotta be careful how I'm walking and,
Toe Bro: and all that.
And the boot, everything.
So I'm gonna show the camera at the back.
We can see the new nail growing in that's fully pink and attached.
That white line is that lifted portion where I was.
Torching you, but under your numbing, you didn't feel anything
separating the nail from the nail bed.
Um, that way the nail comes out nice, but that new nail grows in fully
attached and those lifted edges grow out.
But look at two months, it looks so much better.
The shape of the toe is so much better.
Like I still can't get over how wide I
Patient: know.
Toe Bro: And how, okay, so this is the big thing.
Everyone wants to know how is it like after the healing?
How long did the freezing last?
Do you remember?
Good.
Like.
Three, four hours.
Okay.
Yeah.
And then when it weared off, how'd it feel?
It feels like nothing, honestly.
It didn't really hurt.
You're being a tough guy.
I think it's just me.
Yeah.
Patient: Pain level is low, so I can't give an example.
Toe Bro: But the big thing is I think what I tell everyone when you
have a really bad ingrown, that the healing sometimes is not even close
to what it compares to have act.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Cuz that's painful, right?
What you had before.
Anytime you bang something, you touch, it sucks.
Oh yeah.
So healing was not bad.
Not bad at all.
When did you start going back to the gym?
Patient: Uh, I'm not gonna lie to you.
Probably like five days, six days
Toe Bro: after, and any issues.
No issues at all.
Have you had any problem with healing since then?
No.
Nothing.
Okay.
That's awesome.
So all we're gonna do is we can trim straight across from now on.
Yep.
Don't have to worry about any other ingrown.
That's it.
You're done.
Amazing.
You're gonna have to just do some good dressing.
So you are gonna be using an antibiotic cream.
On either side of the toe.
Yep.
The first couple days it couldn't have bleed.
Oh.
So if it bleeds through the dressing today, normal,
you're just gonna take it off.
Put a new dressing on.
So you're gonna put on cream.
Yep.
Gauze and wrap.
I'm gonna wrap this a little bit already cuz you are gonna bleed.
Yeah.
And it's because of all that abnormal tissue.
Okay?
But that's completely normal.