Toe Bro: Awesome, now you're movie start. [laughs]
Patient: You know Dr. Pontarini?
TB: Yes.
P: Yeah, because he ask me now, "whose your doctor?" I said, "look, you have, you know, 250 Down Street to West."
TB: Yes, that's who he told you, right?
P: No, I tell him. TB: Oh. P: He not remember.
TB: He doesn't-- [laughs] P: He wanted somebody else but I say, "no, I want to go there because I was there."
TB: Two years ago. P: Two years ago.
TB: Yeah.
So, this is the big thing - two years ago, you came in and you were having pain.
P: Pain on both side.
TB: Yes, and we cut it out all good.
P: Yeah, you-- that time, from then, it's okay. TB: Of course,
but this nail, like we talked about, has all this nail fungus, okay?
The best thing that we do is just trim out as much of as possible - the bad fungus, okay? That way the nail's short, it's healthier and just clean it up, okay?
Because if I just trim it short-- yes, it looks better - the length - but the nail is still lifted, detached, it's better to make it nice and smooth.
So, I’m going to get all the bad stuff off, no pain.
P: Okay. TB: Okay? And the other one too - I know it's really thick, we'll trim that one down too.
Okay, so let me do this one first.
So, nothing should hurt, you just relax your foot
and what we're going to do is get rid of all the bad thick toenail here.
But for two years you were good.
But you're still not getting pain now?
P: No, no.
TB: That's very important.
So, there's one piece
and whatever is yellow and lifted, we trim off;
that way you're good for another two years. [laughs] We see each other every two years.
But you cut your other toenails very good - who did that? You did?
P: I do both them, yeah. TB: Oh my,
those are good. P: This especially-- especially to cut this [inaudible] everyday.
Especially tools to cut the toenail. (They) grow too thick, yeah?
TB: Well, you cut the other-- the smaller ones really good.
You want a new job? You can come here and work with me.
P: [laughs] TB: You can cut all the other toenails here.
So, again, the fungus - it eats the nail.
P: Yeah? TB: And that's what causes it to become lifted and yellow with all the dead skin.
P: I-- I read all your history.
TB: You read my history?
P: And I go-- I talk about your father, he was a--
TB: Oh my gosh, you know my history.
P: No, but-- TB: Yeah, it's there, it's there, yeah. P: I remember you putting it. [laughs]
TB: I put it-- yeah, I put it out there. P: It's [inaudible]. [laughs]
Yeah, your father do same job, right?
TB: He did. P: Yeah, that's that.
TB: I grew up watching him do this and now I’m doing the same thing.
P: Yeah, if you like, it's good. TB: It's good!
Work is work but, you know, I have fun meeting everybody and helping people.
P: Yeah, yeah.
TB: So, I’m going to buff this out to make it very smooth.
P: But I-- I think it's grow again-- TB: Of course.
The nail's always going to grow again. P: Grow again. TB: Yes, but, at least, you don't have that lifted nail.
P: [inaudible] cleaning them up. TB: Exactly, we're going to clean it out today. P: Yeah.
If it was a lady, it's okay because lady-- [laughs] I never show my feet to nobody.
TB: [laughs] P: [laughs]
TB: Women can't have this, no, they have to hide it.
Let me trim the other one then we're gonna buff this one down, okay? P: Yeah.
TB: So, this side is fine, it was just this one corner and we're going to make it smooth with a file so it's all looking much better.
P: You know what? When I go in the bed, sometime I scratch my wife. [laughs]
TB: Uh-hoh.
P: Make it nice and smooth.
TB: That's no-- that's no good.
If the wife gets scratched, she gets upset.
If the wife gets-- gets scratched, she'd be very upset, right?
P: Oh, sure. [laughs]
TB: She's the one who brought you here; I’m sure who made you come here.
Okay, so, you just relax for the same thing.
We're just going to trim it all back.
So, it looks like you banged this toenail pretty good;
you got a nice dark spot on it.
P: Something I think probably got [inaudible] problem. One over there and one here.
TB: Look at that curve on that. P: Yeah.
TB: I'll put it here. Look at that curve.
But no pain.
P: No pain.
TB: Okay, that's good. P: Because it goes straight, the other one that-- that's the one before, it goes inside-- inside of the--
TB: The skin. P: Yeah.
TB : But now no more. P: No more.
TB: We told it to go the right way. P: Yeah.
TB: No pain over here, sir?
P: No, no.
TB: Okay, very good.
So we'll get all this dead skin out and we'll do the same thing - we're gonna buff this nail.
So, you relax the foot for a second, you relax the foot; there we go.
Getting all the dead skin out.
Okay, so let me buff this one down so we're going to put this foot lower like this.
Nothing should hurt, so, what I’m going to be using is a tool that has water and we're going to smooth it out.
Nice and smooth now.
One more.
Okay, we're gonna do the same thing - just buff it down nice and smooth.
You okay?
P: Yeah.
TB: No pain, right?
P: No.
TB: There we go, nice and smooth now.
Now you don't have to hear the wife complain about the toenails.
So, this pocket will grow with time all over again.
The best thing to do is another couple, you know, maybe a year-two years, once this part gets here or you can't cut this side, you come back and we keep filing it down, keeping it thin.
Now, the problem - to treat nail fungus is very difficult,
it takes a lot of medicine, sometimes the medicine is very expensive, okay?
You know, you could get a medicine from Dr. Pontarini but the bottle costs $120 and you have to use one bottle every month, you have to put a topical on every day twice a day for the next year.
P: I've got this for over 27.
TB: You've had this for over 20 years? P: Because the doctor told me - the specialist -
he said, "I give you the pill-- [inaudible] expensive pill, you can take one time, no more."
TB: Yes. P: Right.
"But it's working-- 80% it work."
TB: Yes, the pill, yes, 80%. P: Then, in order for me, say, "[inaudible] 200% for you"
and so I say that, "for the time, I leave it there."
TB: So, you try-- you tried it once.
P: Yeah, because the-- yeah, the pill if I give it to you, you can't take no more. If you work, work, if not-- TB: Okay.
P: This time, [inaudible] I know, both say now [inaudible] especially it's for the-- just for fungus. TB: Yeah.
P: You know? If I was worse--
TB: It was worse before?
P: He take some piece-- [inaudible] piece, put in the--
TB: To test it, yes.
P: Now-- then, sometime worse, sometime-- but the feeling no bother me, no pain, it's okay, what can I--
TB: Yeah, but sometimes cleaning it up, at least-- P: Yeah, it's okay. TB: --it looks healthier, there's nothing sharp,
you know, it's smooth and then we just come back when it's long again. So, what I would say - every-- maybe every year-- P: Yeah, that's it. TB: --we come in.
P: Because I want to know-- I’m not sure if you have to come in-- TB: No problem. P: --[inaudible] that time of year.
TB: Yeah, yeah, you come.
Let me take actually one picture for your file after.
There we go. P: You think I can see it in my iPad?
TB: Which one? Yeah, yeah!
P: [laughs] TB: Your video-- yeah. next time, I'll tell you where to go.
P: [laughs] TB: [laughs]
P: I said to my wife, "watch this!" [laughs]
I said-- you know what I tell her? I said you're special, not everybody can do this.
TB: No, just you, just you, you're special. P: [laughs] TB: Special.