Foreign toe surgery

Yesterday I went to the family doctor here in Argentina. The guy welcomed me in and directed me to the operating table. After a quick observation of my ingrown toenail he requested that I lay down and relax while he injected my toe a couple of times to numb the pain.

The translation of the procedure was not the same as my Spanish and English doctors advised I needed. This was causing me concern. Here I was, now with a needle in my toe when he announced that it was better to remove the whole nail and not just one side.

I had an ´oh no´ feeling but was assured he knew his stuff. I hate the word assure because normally it´s me that is the ass so I did my best to persuade him to remove only the bit I did not want.

We came to a compromise that he would only cut half of it off but not kill the root so he could sting me again no doubt when it grew back. So with a numb toe I laid back and hoped his experience won over my fears.

You should have seen the big jagged blood stained barbed piece of nail he cut out of my toe! It looked like a sharks tooth. No wonder it had been hurting me so much. I was told the anesthetic would wear off in about an hour but 5 minutes later the pain started.

My toe is sore because half the nail is gone but I am OK. I recommend you don´t have any kind of surgery even a small one if you don´t understand doctors technical jargon in a foreign language.

Especially if his surgery looks suspiciously like his house, there is no
secretary and the magazine are thrown on a heap on a stool.