When’s the last time you lost a finger or toe nail?

It was the week after Christmas. Had a huge tree cut up and was splitting logs on the log splitter. Picked up a giant log and was laying it down onto the log splitter that was horizontal, not vertical, and my middle finger got caught between the log and the end piece of the splitter as I dropped it down. That fingernail fell off, grew back, and is just now starting to look normal except for the giant ridges and humps in it.

a few years ago I sustained a dancing related injury at a wedding... had to have it surgically removed and the entire doc's office agreed I was the bravest patient they'd ever had.

it grew back totally fine, but now any time I stub my toe or kick something I panic a little because I don't wanna be that brave again.

Ouch.

How do they do that in a Dr’s office. I can’t imagine.

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How do they do that in a Dr’s office. I can’t imagine.

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lots of lidocaine... and to be fair, I had already loosened it for them

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This is a terrible thread. I hurt reading every post.

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it's a welcome respite from many of the other topics rn

They’d have to put me under.

My toe nail is so sensitive right now. I’d jump out of this chair if someone touched it.

Right now, nicely smashed a finger and ripped off half a nail in a tragic patio umbrella folding incident this past weekend.

I had a bad ingrown toe nail when I was younger. The doctor my mother took me to pulled the entire nail and it never grew back right since. I've lost this nail a few times over the course of my life (hit with a baseball, kicked the fridge on accident, Caught it on a couch leg once) each time it grew back more screwed up than the last. Now it grows about half of the width that it used to and grows thick. At a certain point during growth it starts to grow into the skin on the top of my toe. Rather than cut it with clippers (it's too thick anyway) I get a pair of channel locks and a shot of whiskey and pull it. (about once a year)

Lost the toenail off my big toe after running over it with a pallet jack.

It took a while to fall all the way off and that was the worst part. It took even longer to grow all the way back but that was easy. No pain or discomfort. But it took around 6 months, or that’s what I recall in hindsight.