ext_76155 ([identity profile] annvole.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] den 2006-01-13 02:59 am (UTC)

Your only two feet under not six feet under!

Make sure you do not have any nerve damage causing numbness in any of the toes... if you do, it might be a good idea to have a plastic surgeon line up the broken nerves so the feeling has a chance to return after a few months or years. I had one finger almost cut off with a skill saw and three years later am starting to get significant sense of touch back in it (had some sense in it within weeks but only lately has it been good enough to actually feel what the finger is touching) but I am sure I would have none of that back if it was not fixed by a plastic surgeon. Maybe toes are not as important as fingers for touch but phantom pains are not desireable (like the part of my hand that is permanently numb due to a stab wound that gets the occational phantom pain - I would hate to have a lost limb with such pains!) Watch out for wavy toenails like I got when I was a kid (dropping a glass jar of peanut butter on it weighing about 5 lbs / 3 kg and from a height of about 5 feet / 1.5 m). It got so wavy that the nail fell off after about 2 months (very painfull). I am not sure what to do to prevent that if they go wavy on you though.

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