Can Wood Cause Gangrene?
The green one is embedded inside my big toe on my left foot …ouch!
Well, not the whole toothpick but enough so that I am in just enough anguish to want to go to the ER but not enough that I couldn’t still write this at work:) It’s my lunch hour ok!
Yesterday I came in the house and immediately felt an awful rush of pain permeate my entire body. I stepped on a green toothpick…a remnant of my son’s play date I referenced a few posts down.
It’s on the side of my big toe and you can see the green of the toothpick under my skin. I know TMI..so what! My husband tried to get it out with nail clippers and other instruments and I made him stop b/c I was reduced to tears (in front of my 10 year old step-daughter and her nosy friends…who btw all crowded around to look at my ashy shin and feet and ‘pedicure been too long’ toes).
He got frustrated and suggested I leave it alone for a few days and see if it comes out on it’s own. See, it’s not sticking out. It’s lodged length-wise into my toe. Hubby tried to dig a burrow alongside the toothpick but I screamed and hit him!
Anyway, I have this throbbing pain in my toe and I may go to the ER. Can I survive with 1/6th of a green stick in my toe?…can’t the green dye seep into my bloodstream? I am so torn.
But, as a co-worker has said (too many times about too many things), “at least you’re not in New Orleans”. True indeed. But I do wish he’d shut-up already. This guy…if he overhears you say, “my hotdog needs more ketchup’, he replies, “well at least your not in New Orleans”.
You will not die, or get gangrene. ROFLMAO but you need to get it out of there!!! It could get infected mama. I don’t mean to laugh, but… umm… you might have to just suck it up and to to the emergency room if you can’t tolerate the match-light-sterilized pins being stuck in your foot. More than likely the body will take care of it (the human body is NO JOKE when it comes to invaders), but it’s going to HURT in the meantime!!! Go get it taken out… you’ll be glad you did. And if you don’t want to pay all the extra for the emergency room, see if you can get an appointment with your GP and tell him what the deal is. He should be able to anesthetize the area and remove the foreign object with ease. Poor baby. =)) Good luck. But look on the bright side… at least you’re not… yeah yeah, you know the rest. =)
Thanks for the advice. It’s 12:15am (EST) and I just got this thing out! I used a stick pin to puncture the toothpick and eased it out on the pin. I got nervous with the idea of sleeping with this in my toe for another night. I psyched myself up by remembering the man stuck on that mountain who cut off his own hand…or was it his foot? Anyway, it hurt…real bad and now I have a tiny hole in my toe. But hey, at least I’m not… Speaking of which….thanks again Soror for posting that Moore ‘open letter’.
Comment by Xquizzyt1 — September 2, 2005 @ 8:25p
If you haven’t taken it out yet…what works for me is…take a safety pin…dip it in some alcohol…make small nicks around the entrance of the splinter…then slide it out. may hurt a little…but u’ll live. You wont get gangrene…but certainly some type of infection if you leave it…And I really think I would smack the shit outta dude if he said that again…Give him an evil ass look next time LOL
Girl, I finally got this thing out. You totally gave me the idea for the safety pin. Thanks so much! You know, it hurts A LOT now. I think b/c it’s opened and not plugged up by the toothpick.
Comment by DJ DIVA — September 3, 2005 @ 3:35p