promotion…
From skin cancers, today I got promoted to yanking out someone’s ingrown toenail (under NESB surgeon’s supervision of course)! Local anaesthetic is MAGIC - the patient didn’t even blink when I did the "wedge resection" i.e cut the flesh adjacent to the toenail, cut down the toenail (vertically), and….. YANK! Then the currettage has gotta be the worst - apparently to clean out whatever leftover bits of nail and nailbed. Scrape with the spatula until you hear it scraping against the bone.. it goes like kerrrkkk… kerrrkkk… The first time I saw/heard NESB surgeon do it I almost fainted.
But the gory procedure is supposed to relief the little girl of all the pain she’s had in the past couple of weeks (when the ingrown toenail was poking into the sensible/sensitive flesh).
Wonder if some of the enduring pains in our lives get removed that way… just remove/yank out the whole area… which would be excruciating initially… but it gives lasting relief =) The Master supervises, intervenes, and provides aftercare.
August 22nd, 2005 at 4:42 pm
ok, penny kee, it sounds very gross, but i do like the analogy
November 14th, 2005 at 5:51 pm
hey penny…first time reading your blog. must say, i’m fascinated. and this, what an interesting post.
reminds me of the time i had ingrown nails in the past.
and the analogy - very accurate. take care.