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TB: Like the other toenails, you shouldn't feel any pain, okay? You didn't feel any pain with that one? P: No TB: So same thing.
So we're gonna trim as much as we can off and then we'll file it down.
Do you ever go on YouTube?
P: Uh, a little bit, yes when I want to check something.
TB: Well now you gonna have to go check and see your toe. P: Yeah!
TB: Normally doing a conservative treatment like this,
this toenail will be good for 3-4 months.
P: Yeah.
TB: We come back, we file the nail down again,
and we just keep doing that over and over and over. If you get tired of doing the conservative treatment,
then it's just like we discussed. You have to just think about when you'd like to have the nail removed.
P: Okay. Just give me a chance to get used to that.
TB: Yep
and like I said, sometimes having no nail is better than having this thickened, deformed nail.
But everything's coming off really quick actually.
P: Yeah?
TB: Yeah, the nail is quite lifted.
TB: Nothing hurts?
P: No. I would just like to get rid of it.
TB: So it was mostly just your bad experience with a another foot specialist that just made you not want to have your feet looked at?
P: Yeah because I mean I had what...
I went into shock. I had to you know, they had to call an ambulance
I was my temperature was around 100.
TB: From one little cut on the bottom.
P: Something must have gone nobody told me to cover it up, put anything on it.
TB: Did they let you know there was a cut or no?
P: Yeah, yeah there was a nick and there was some blood and they wiped it
but then I'm walking around and you know it's summertime so I'm in sandals, right?
TB: Mm-hm.
P: So it must have got in.
It was an awful experience.
TB: A whole leg infection, that's pretty scary.
P: When you see that red coming up (the leg) you're like...oooh.
TB: I'm sorry. Are you okay?
I'm getting to the bottom.
P: You know there's lots of people believe me advertise but are not really chiropodist, you know.
TB: We got a little pinpoint bleeding here, but the difference is that we're gonna dress the toes an
antibacterial wipe it'll be fine. This is just a dead skin on the nail bed.
You still okay?
P: Uh-hum.
TB: Again, this is all skin underneath so sometimes it's very normal for it to
bleed but
the good thing is your sugars are pretty contained and you just have to dress this afterwards. I'll give you all the advice.
Okay, so what I'm gonna do is file the normal nails and then we file this one last, okay? P: Okay.
This one, yeah, the other toe looks better. We're gonna do the same thing for this one. Okay.
If you feel any heat, you let me know.
So trying to remove as much of the dead skin
as well underneath.
So it looks like you just have a patch of really healthy skin underneath the nail that's what gotten nicked.
P: Oh. That's good, huh?
TB: It's good, but again the nail bed is still damaged so the nail still will never grow the same again.
So, like I said, we're just going to use a little bit of polysporin.
If you're at home not going anywhere,
you can leave it open but anytime you're in close toed shoes or outside, you have to put a bandaid on.
P: Okay.
TB: There we go.
Look at that!
P: Yeah! Wow!
TB: Better? P: Yeah!
TB: One less thing to worry about so I'm gonna just gonna dress the toe up. How are both feet looking?
P: They look so much better!
TB: Okay, let me clean everything up in and off you go.