Watch your step

Saterday while cleaning up the yard i steped on a nail and it went into my heel , Well i stepped on the bord with my other foot and yanked it out ! OUCH! went in the house took my shoe off. Yes i should have been wairing my boots! Nail went in the bottom of my heel and out the side. Cleaned it out real good and put some med on it. and soaked it in some hot salt water. well ever since it has realy hurt. yesterday at work at lunch i was in tears from the pain. Well my boss loaded me up and off to the ER and i had a sliver of bone that chipped off when i stepped on the nail. Went to the foot DR today and they removed the bone chip. Im numb at this time but have some good pain killers for later but Im off work tommarow! and Grandma is making me mind the DR orders! If you do step on a nail get it checked because you never know!

Well, in my experience, you can sorta blow off what the Doc says and maybe get by with it...BUT:

You better listen to Grandma or you will wish ya had!!

Last time I stepped on a nail I couldn't remember my last tetanus shot so I figured I better go get one. I went to the walk in clinic and told them all I wanted was a tetanus shot. They sent me back and the Dr. came in and wanted to look at my foot. I showed him my foot and he said "yea, looks like you stepped on a nail" and walked out. A few minutes later a nurse came in, gave me the shot, and sent me on my way. A few days later I got a bill in the mail. $30 for the shot and $400 for the Dr.! So I paid a Dr. $400 to tell me something I already knew.

Yikes, hope you don't work on your feet! The only good thing to come out of it is the pain killers... Hydrocodone is some fantastic stuff.. Hope that's what you got.

Feel & Get better!

Tigger hope you will heal up soon,will be rally time before long.

Prayers UP for your complete healing.

Hopefully there will be no lasting effects from this and you feel better when the pain killers are gone.

I stepped on a nail a while back. Don't think I got a tetanus shot for it but it went in pretty deep. Probably wouldn't have happened if I had my jump boots on back then...

SO you are Gimpy II now huh?

Monday, I took my dog to the vet's. She had a slight mishap on the motorcycle.

When my vet referred to her bad(previous permanent leg injury) as her "Gimpy Leg", I actually laughed out loud. She looked at me funny(like I was making fun of my own dog), and I had to explain why I laughed.

We may need a "Gimpy section" at the GA rally.

BTW, I asked about getting her a joint transplant. It is not offered at this time(amputation is the only option). I am gonna try to find a forum on leg transplants. I'm thinking I could transplant a PIG leg (whole). Wouldn't that be cool? (Sorry Angie)

WOW, not only do I get my own emoticons, I get my own camping section! Next up,






"Gimpy for president"

Let's not get carried away.

You need to start at the bottom, and work your way up.(like Monica Lewinsky did).

Do you like Cigars?

That is what I call a bad day. I've stepped on nails bedded in wood before but there was never enough sticking out to penetrate bone. You have the worst case of stepping on a nail I have heard of to date. Hopefully with the fragment removed, your recovery will be quick and with minimal pain.

Here's another safety tidbit:

Make sure you look both ways before flying your kite around power lines!

I wonder is saftey glasses would have helped avoid this situation?

Or the TMs?

doghead said:

Let's not get carried away.

You need to start at the bottom, and work your way up.(like Monica Lewinsky did).

Do you like Cigars?

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NO, like PAtracey, after the second or third time, I decided it wasn't for me!

This is the "safety" forum. If you never leave a nail sticking out......

Swelling is going down and i can sorta walk again. Soaking in Hot salt water is helping a lot. And grandma made Boston cream pie! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! I had gotten a pile of scrap wood to use for getting the fire started this winter and i was sorting and stacking it in prep for the up coming winter. It was one of the bords that i had set aside to cut that had the nail in it. And again I should have been wairing by boots and this would not have happened! A hard head makes a sore A** or in my case a sore foot! Some times we just have to learn the hard way!

doghead said:

Monday, I took my dog to the vet's. She had a slight mishap on the motorcycle.

When my vet referred to her bad(previous permanent leg injury) as her "Gimpy Leg", I actually laughed out loud. She looked at me funny(like I was making fun of my own dog), and I had to explain why I laughed.

We may need a "Gimpy section" at the GA rally.

BTW, I asked about getting her a joint transplant. It is not offered at this time(amputation is the only option). I am gonna try to find a forum on leg transplants. I'm thinking I could transplant a PIG leg (whole). Wouldn't that be cool? (Sorry Angie)

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They are good at adapting!

Why don't we just amputate Gimps leg, give it to the dog and then give Gimp one of those special legs like the runner in the Olympics had???