- [Dad] How was practice?
- Good.
- [Dad] Ready to go to the toe doctor?
- Yes.
(restaurant patrons chattering)
- [Dad] Cheers!
- I dare ya.
Eat the wasabi.
Did you?
Are you better now?
- Yes.
- [Dad] Ready to go to the doctor?
- Mm-Hmm.
This show is stupid.
- [Dad] Gout?
Do you have gout?
- Yeah.
Right there sometimes.
That hurt my jaw.
- [Dad] Let's go to the jaw doctor.
- [Doctor] Up and everything, how you didn't like that.
But I'm gonna clean it up because
the callous is what keeps building up.
So basically, as you can see Doctor Eliza,
when I open it, it splits.
Then we she does her actual beam,
she's really flipping on it and everything.
- Relax you foot for me.
She's getting it everywhere, too.
- Oh yeah, yeah.
That's her normal stuff.
So basically, what we're gonna do
is if this can't close,
we'll have to suture it closed
because it's a big laceration.
It's a big cut there,
it's just gonna keep splitting open,
but we'll wait.
It's the same thing, the beam right?
You paid attention and kinda land on--
- [Dad] Aren't those from smackin' the bar?
- Well I lost this toe because...
- The toe nail.
- But, that was way in the beginning of summer,
then it grew back.
- Because these are symmetrical.
- But then it died and I took it off.
- That means you were probably
hitting these on the bars.
- [Dr. Eliza] Or just the constant pulling.
- Okay you ready?
- [Dr. Eliza] It's not gonna hurt, you'll see.
- No, she just feels the little pinch.
That's what she doesn't like.
Last time she hated when I
curetted out the wound, but then I had to.
- [Dr. Eliza] I would have hated that, too.
- How's that feel?
- It's okay.
- It's okay?
You're not suffering with that one?
- No.
- [Dr. Eliza] You should be feeling pulling, right?
Pulling of the skin?
Well that looks really good.
She may...
- Yeah it looked a lot worse last time.
- [Dr. Eliza] But yeah stitches are in order.
- She probably won't, but the
splinting method seems to be
helping bring it back down.
- Ow.
- You feel that one?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
We're coming across.
- [Dr. Eliza] Can just wear that splint
for all the activities?
- No, it's just the beam that it's the way,
like she doesn't need it for bars.
She doesn't need it for floor.
The vault and the beam are really
what put the impact on it.
Because she's actually flipping over and then landing.
This is your landing foot, too?
- Yeah
- She lands right on this one.
- Ow.
- That's the one?
I didn't do beam.
That's the one.
- [Dr. Eliza] Well, all the other stuff.
- Yeah.
It's very simple.
- [Dr. Eliza] Is it really killing you?
- No, it's not hurting her too bad.
- [Dr. Eliza] Yeah it's hurting her.
- She's tough though, she's tough.
See look how nice that looks now.
Okay, you ready?
This is the last part.
- [Dr. Eliza] Down, down just breathe, breathe.
- Good?
- You're doing great, good job.
- Almost done, Whitney.
- You survived.
- I have just this side and then you're finished.
- Do you want us to put something on it?
You sure?
You gotta breathe, you're gonna pass out.
- That's it!
That wasn't as bad as the curette, right?
The actual pick, and everything?
So very good job.
So, got all that off.
There's just a little more here,
I'm gonna clean up but it won't
hurt or anything like that.
It's just the pinching.
That's much better.
It's getting less deep
because she's been splinting it.
That's very good.
See, this wound base was probably twice as wide last time
with fibrotic tissue, and I had to scrape it all out.
She hated that part.
I'm not scraping it today.
And it was double the count.
- Thick.
- That's fine, but you're still doing the
the rip in half?
- Yeah, well I don't rip it in half, I fold it in half.
- Just do what you do, let me just see.
I don't care if it's the same as mine,
as long as it works and it's helping you out.
- [Dad] That'll be thinner than when you
fold it in half with your thicker stuff though, right?
- [Doctor] Yeah, I just want to see what
she's doing exactly.
Just to make sure.
If there's any modification we can do to
help it out or anything like that.
How bad did these huge cracks in these toes hurt?
Or you don't even notice these ones?
- It depends on the day.
Sometimes they hurt really bad and
they start bleeding everywhere.
- [Dad] What would you recommend for them?
- This is treating them almost the exact
same way we're treating these.
So, really to the big sides we have to keep those
moist so they stop splitting and cracking.
And then to the middle, just as long as
they're covered with a bandaid when she's at home,
or at night is fine.
It's not gonna stay on when she's
doing her gymnastics.
- So that, it's usually like that thick.
- Okay.
- And then I do that,
and I cross it.
- Like I was showing you?
- Yeah and then I tape around it so that...
- So you actually have a full splint?
So it stays on.
So it's actually lassoed on there.
That's totally fine, that's totally fine.
And it stays on pretty much the whole event?
Then you just take it off, go to the next one?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- [Dad] But it's like dripping with blood, though.
- Yeah, I imagine it's, 'cause she has an open wound,
that it starts to bleed.
I know you hate this part.
Okay.
Get this thing actually healing up and avoid some stitches.
The only problem is the activity.
Just springing it right back open,
ripping it right back open.
So let's put some basics all the way across the toe.
- [Dad] Are those different than last time?
- Last time I cut them, same steri-strip style.
But this time I'm also gonna do the splint,
and really just lock her toe into place
and let this thing heal up.
So you didn't have to get tortured with
the ice cream scoop today.
That's very good.
And if I have to debride it again,
that's what that's called, with that.
Next time we'll just numb the toe up.
So, two little shots, boom, the toe's numbed up.
All right.
How's that feel when I press on it, by the way?
Not too bad?
- Not too bad.
- Let me see that tape?
Oh no I got it, no you can keep that one.
Okay so, the way you were doing it is fine.
But if you have this tape again, take one, rip it in half,
and we'll splint this toe right down.
Good.
So, I'm gonna pull it down.
Remember how I pull it down.
Put the next piece right over there.
Crisscross and another one.
So now we've really got this toe secure.
It's not cutting off your circulation?
- Mm-mm (negative).
- One more and then we'll wrap it up
with a little dressing again.
So we've got it steri-stripped.
Paper stitched back into place,
and then we've got the splint dressing,
the Spica dressing.
So, we might get this toe healed up.
So, that is locked into place.
You see how it's down?
It's not hurting you though, right?
Okay perfect, so it is locked down
because we want that crease to be a bit,
plantarflex not extending up,
for at least the 18 hours.
Okay now I'm just gonna wrap it up with a little dressing,
just like we did before.
Like a little wrap with the coban and everything.
It doesn't feel uncomfortable, right?
It feels weird being pulled down,
but it doesn't hurt you, right?
- Well the cut kinda hurts.
- The cut kinda hurts, yeah.
Let's get a little wrap going.
- [Dad] Do you remember the time that it
actually happened, Whitney?
What were you doing?
- Yeah how'd you actually split it open the first time?
- I can't remember exactly, but I just felt it
kinda start to hurt and I looked down
and it was there.
- Sometimes, like the rips on your hands,
it just builds up more and more,
so you probably had that callous building there
'til it cracked through, that's usually
how those rips happen.
So, it might not have been one thing, like you said.
Good.
We'll wrap this up and then you're all
set with a nice dressing again.
You guys have this coban, right?
- Mm-mm (negative).
- You don't have that available?
- [Dad] Will she need some?
- No.
I was just wondering because we have this a lot
in the different sports.
- [Dad] She uses a lot of pre-wrap.
- Pre-wrap?
Look at this toe's like, secured like a...
Feel this.
It's like a plaster splint in there.
See how it barely moves?
So, if it starts hurting, like, you know,
way late tonight, like you feel like
it's cutting off your circulation,
take the dressing off, okay?
And then you can just splint it for the night.
Just so it has the steri-strips still on it
and everything like that.
All right, let's put a little piece of coban here.
- [Dad] Will the debriding that you did...
- That will help again.
It helped clean all the borders, the
hyperkeratotic tissue.
It'll really help with that.
And this one just goes right over the top.
I can feel it really splinted up and taped up in there.
Good, good, good.
Okay, let me put a piece of tape.
And you are all strapped up.
All right, very good.
Good job!
- [Dad] No stitches.
- Did they fix the door?
- [Dad] I don't know.
How's your foot feel?
- Good.
So we thought that I might've needed stitches,
but the doctor said that it wasn't a good idea.
So, now I'm just gonna keep on doing
what I'm doing and hope for the best.
(uplifting music)