Patient: --now, nurse already [inaudible].
Patient's Daughter: My mom has a good memory. Toe Bro: You have a good-- [laughs]
D: [laughs]
TB: How old are you? You must be, like, 30-years-old with a memory like that.
P: Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right. I’m more than that already.
TB: You have a good memory, you have-- P: [inaudible]
TB: So, you-- did my dad ever treat you as a patient or no? You just knew him.
P: You know what? At the time, I did not like your dad.
TB: Oh-- [laughs] P: [laughs] D: [laughs]
P: Your dad is a friend of my husband before, my ex-husband.
TB: Oh, okay.
P: They've been both working there in [inaudible].
TB: Small world, that is unbelievable.
P: You see?
TB: That is a small world. So, we have this very thick toenail.
P: I know.
TB: There's two things we normally do for this - one: we trim it back,
file it down as thin as we can - this is considered conservative treatment.
That's what we're gonna do today for you.
But, let's say you were younger, right? Say, you know, 15/20/30-years-old,
in better health-- or not-- you're in good health but younger in age, we would remove this toenail forever
because this toenail is permanently damaged, it's never going to grow back normal again
so that procedure is very simple, we would numb your toe--
P: You know, my toe's have been there already when I was young.
TB: Really? What happened? P: Yeah, but I don't know now, when I become--
when I become older, I become worse already. TB: What happened? What happened?
P: I don't know, I think I tripped somewhere, it was crushed when I was young.
TB: A water buffalo stepped on it for sure.
P: Since the time-- TB: [laughs]
P: But when I was young, it was still okay. TB: It's still okay but--
D: How much-- how much would it cost to, like, do what you're doing?
Trimming and all that stuff to make-- is there a fee?
TB: Yeah, so today's fee is $80
and that's the initial consultation and basic treatment.
Not that we're going to do it today, but a surgery for this - I charge $500, okay? And that's for the permanent--
P: Are you not going to take it out today?
TB: We're going to trim it out but not surgically, we're going to cut it back, make it nice-- P: Yeah, you trim it.
TB: Yes. P: That's the only thing I needed.
TB: That's what we're going to do today, okay? Okay?
P: I need you to cut it or remove it or what?
TB: No, no, we're just going to trim it. P: Just to trim it? It's okay?
TB: So, we're going to go nice and slow. P: Oh, the clippers is there.
TB: This is the good clippers.
P: Yeah, because you have the nice clipper, strong clipper.
TB: You like my clippers. P: That's it.
TB: Nothing should hurt too, okay, tita? It's very important.
P: Because, you see, they're very-- oh my goodness. You see? That's all I need.
TB: That's all you need.
We go little by little. P: Yeah.
TB: That's the secret, actually, is you go little by little.
P: Mhm-mhm.
TB: Were you a nurse?
P: Before. TB: Before.
D: She retired at age 55. P: Long time, I already retired long long time ago.
I’m already 80, you know?
TB: Oh, you look good.
P: What do you expect? How old is your dad now?
TB: He's 75.
P: Ah, I'm older than him.
TB: You probably didn't like my dad-- he's probably-- he was probably-- he was probably chasing you,
he was probably flirting with you too much.
D: [laughs] P: [laughs] TB: [laughs]
She said, "who's this little guy bugging me all the time?"
P: He's younger than me.
There, you see?
TB: Very simple, little by little. P: Those nails, yeah, I know.
If you have a nice clipper, very good.
TB: So I should give her the clipper and she can do it too now, right? No? You don't want to-- [laughs]
P: That's all what I need, never mind that [inaudible] I’m already old, you know?
I know how it is when you're going to have operation of the bunions, oh, lord Jesus.
TB: [laughs] P: [laughs]
TB: Did you know anyone who had a bunion surgery?
P: Oh, of course.
TB: And what did they say? P: You don't touch, you don't touch, oh my God, you're going to surgery
when they're going too long, nevermind, thank you very much.
That's already a dead nails, you know?
TB: Oh, look at that.
P: Oh, you see?
TB: Nothing hurts, right? P: Yeah, is already a dead nail so no pain.
TB: Yeah, well, the nail is alive, it's just growing-- P: You doing under? TB: --extremely thick.
P: Oh my God, [inaudible]
TB: So, what this is - this is all the damaged--
P: I know. TB: --dry skin underneath.
P: That's no good, no, no, no. TB: No good.
Who's your family doctor?
P: Huh?
TB: Who's your family doctor?
P: Sharon.
TB: Wow, she referred you here? P: She said, "you wanna know who give-- who--" she said to me,
"have you heard of Jonathan? He's a very good guy." [laughs] TB: [laughs] That's what she said?
P: That's what she said to me!
"He's a very nice guy, I know you will like him," that's what she said to me.
TB: She's very sweet. P: Maybe she doesn't know-- maybe she doesn't know how to pronounce your last name.
TB: That's why she didn't say it, but then when you saw--
P: And then when I saw it, "oh! It's Tomines! I know this one!"
TB: [laughs] P: [laughs] D: [laughs] "I don't like the father!" [laughs]
TB: "I know that guy from Pangasinan!" [laughs]
P: [laughs] "I know-- I know this one!" [laughs] Oh my God...
TB: [laughs] P: From Pangansinan-- you haven't gone there?
D: Flirting, that's why maybe--
P: You didn't go to Pangansinan yet?
TB: I’ve never been to the Philippines! P: You never go to the Philippines, like me.
Ever since I came here, I did not go back anymore.
TB: No?
P: No.
You should go or maybe your
old-- old lolos and lolas, maybe they're all gone.
TB: They're all gone now, all gone.
All gone.
See, my dad, I think maybe was too cheap to send me to the Philippines.
He told me I was gonna get-- P: Your daddy not go home?
TB: No. he hasn't gone home in a long time, no.
P: No more. TB: He never took me because he said I was going to get kidnapped.
P: You're are the young--
D: [laughs] TB: [laughs] P: --you're the youngest one?
TB: I am-- no, I have one more younger sister.
P: Oh, you got, but you are the eldest.
TB: No, no, I have-- he has two older kids.
P: Oh, you got? TB: He got married first to a Filipina
and then they didn't work out. P: They divorced.
TB: Yeah, and then I’m the second batch.
P: Oh, okay. TB : And then my mom's French-Canadian, German.
P: Oh, he's a French Canadian.
TB: Yeah.
P: She was a nurse too?
TB: She was a nu
rse too, that's how they met. P: That's where they met.
TB: Yes. P: Hm-mhm.
TB: And he was a bad boy, she was a student nurse I think.
P: Yeah?
TB: Yeah, and he was older.
P: Hm-mhm.
Well, sometimes it happens, right? TB: Sometimes-- [laughs]
P: That's natural, you're in Canada.
TB: Yeah, yeah. So, what happened when you saw that last name? You said, "oh, no, I don't want to go see another Tomines," huh?
What did you say when you-- when you saw my name?
The last name.
P: Ah, when I saw, I said, "oh," I said, "Jonathan," maybe-- I said-- I said, "maybe
my doctor doesn't know how to pronounce this last name 'Tomines'."
[laughs] TB: [laughs]
P: Because she said to me, "what is this last name? Oh, just call him Jonathan, that's it."
TB: [laughs] P: [laughs]
And I said, "oh my God," I said, "you don't know the last name?" Now, when I saw the paper that she gave me
- 'Tomines' - and I said, "oh, lord."
TB: Oh--[laughs] P: "I know this one," I thought it was your father but
my friend said to me, "no, no," she said to me, "that is his son now, that is his son, oh, Tomines."
TB: How do you-- who'd you talk to? Who did--
P: [inaudible] it's a friend who knows your dad.
TB: Oh. P: Danielle--Danielle Lili.
TB: Oh, okay, yes, yes.
P: Yeah, because Lili-- they are almost going out with the husband.
TB: Yes.
P: What's the name of the husband now?
TB: Frank. P: Yeah.
They always go to the Philippines, you know?
TB: That's my uncle, yeah, yeah. They're-- they're there six months of the year.
P: They already retired long time ago too.
D: It's a small world. TB: It is.
Look at this one. P: Is a very nice woman too.
TB: Yes. Look at that.
P: But I haven't seen her already for a long time.
Oh, boy, that's very nice now, look.
TB: [laughs] P: You see? Perfect.
TB: That's good?
P: Yeah!
TB: We're almost done, we're almost done. P: You see?
You see that's the live nails there at the bottom, right?
TB: Yes, I’m gonna go
until the very end, we're gonna make it look good, it's gonna last a long time.
P: Yeah, I know.
TB: I’m gonna do it the Filipino way so it lasts long time, do a good job. P: [laughs]
TB: Save you some money so you don't have to come back long time.
P: Oh boy.
Well, at least you get this course like you're dad, it's a very good one. D: I should've taken a picture of before and after.
TB: Well, I took pictures so you're good, I have it.
D: Because my friend has similar but his is a little bit less than my mom's.
TB: And how old is he?
D: He's 53.
P: I got some friends, I see if I could recommend you, I recommend them to you.
TB: Thank you, tita. P: You know?
With my-- like this, with my nails like that too,
oh boy, with my age, I said-- I told you.
D: Is there some kind of medication that you can put on the toe also?
TB: Not for this. So, this is--
a lot of people think of fungus toenail, right? But the--
P: Oh, it's nice now, look.
TB: The amount of damage that has happened to it has permanently damaged the toenail
so no medicine will ever make it flat again.
P: It's already been long long time, so...
You see, it's already cleaned very well.
Now, did the-- the nails is already finished, right?
TB: Yes.
P: Yeah, you see, that's the light one there.
D: Because I have a friend who has also a fungus.
P: Yeah, you can recommend Jonathan. TB: Yes, you're my new sales manager now, you know.
So, what happens - if his nail is relatively flat and it's just fungus - yes, we have
topicals, we have laser, we can try to treat it.
D: Okay, yeah, his is flat--
TB: So, then, yeah, then there's things we can do.
P: And I talked to my doctor, "I-- I might go to the spa"
and the assistant said to me, "oh, no, you better go to Jonathan." [laughs]
TB: Well, you know what now? Tita-- P: She said to me, "no."
TB: I opened a spa, a salon next door for pedicure.
P: No, she said to me, "no, you go to Jonathan, it's better."
TB: [laughs] P: [laughs]
TB: Yeah.
P: I said, "yeah, okay, I will go to the podiatrist, I’ll go there."
It is better to really want to look after it rather than you go there.
"You're diabetic?" she said to me, "then you'll never know."
TB: Well, after this, now you can go next door because I open a nail salon now.
P: Yeah? TB: Pedicure-manicure, right next door.
Okay, we'll put that foot down.
P: Nevermind manicure.
TB: No?
P: Never mind, it's already [inaudible]; manicure, manicure.
TB: Okay, let me file this down, now this is the special part.
This is where we're gonna make the toenail as thin as possible.
D: Can I just take a picture? TB: Yes, you can.
D: So I can show it to my friend.
P: You see, that's already very nice, oh. [laughs]
The toe nails was long, now it's already-- I have to ask Carol if he wants it too, Carol.
D: Hold it, mom.
P: --my friend.
D: Don't move.
Okay.
TB: And you can take a picture of the screen after the picture I took.
D: Oh.
TB: Okay, so a little bit of cool water. Nothing should hurt, this is gonna make the nails nice and thin now.
P: Okay.
I hope I will not [inaudible].
TB: I hope so too.
No, you won't.
It feels nice.
D: How long have you been, you know, working on the clinic? Like, how long?
TB: How long have I been working as a foot specialist?
D: Yes, foot specialist.
TB: Seven years. D: Seven years.
TB: Yeah, seven years.
Well, I grew up watching my dad work.
P: Well, at least you're the one who-- who-- you know--
TB: Keep the business alive. P: [inaudible] of your daddy.
TB: Yes.
P: And what's your other [inaudible] from the other side? The first one.
TB: My brothers? P: Are you having-- how many brothers?
TB: Two older brothers and I have one younger sister.
P: Oh, I see. Were you the only-- the Filipino one?
TB: Oh, I don't know, no-- no one.
P: Oh, you don't know them? TB: No.
P: But how many of them? TB: My dad's family?
P: Yeah, the family [inaudible] TB: Canada, all together.
P: Oh. TB: And now there's only three left.
P: Only? TB: And they all live here now.
P: Oh.
TB: So, all the ones that they've all unfortunately just died.
P: Yeah? TB: Yeah.
There you go, some of the other one.
Look at that.
P: There, that's good now. You see?
Very good now. I can put the--
TB: The tsinelas P: There now, yeah.
TB: No problem now. D: Eugh.
P: No problem already, you see? D: I'm so, like, disgusted. P: It's nice now.
TB: [laughs]
P: But it takes-- it takes quite some times to grow up again.
TB: Oh my gosh, it's going to take years, years, years.
P: Yeah?
TB: Yes. So, I would see me in maybe a year.
P: Yeah, I'll come and see you, why not?
TB: Come next year for your 35th birthday.
P: Yeah?
TB: Then we can see each other.
P: You see, it's very nice now.
D: So, this is her-- this is the one there's no nail there at all, right?
TB: In the front, no. D: There's nothing.
TB: No.
D: So, this is just-- is this alive now? This nail?
TB: The nail is-- this-- her nails always been alive but what happens - the nail
just doesn't connect in the front,
it's completely scarred so, as the nail grows forward, because it's not attached, it's growing up.
D: Hm. TB: That's why. But this is her real nail.
D: Hm-mhm.
Ew... P: Yeah, that's good. [inaudible]