Zander 9: Second Operation

A few weeks back, I had an operation on my foot. A foreign object somehow made it’s way deep into my big toe near the nail, and was already beginning to get infected. The doctor we went to used sharp needles and dug around the inside of my toe, which is most likely the most pain I’ve ever felt, and wasn’t even able to do what the shot intended, that being to numb my toe. They eventually just separated the left side of my toenail from my toe, which was almost as bad as the shots.


Just my luck that not a week later, a foreign object gets stuck in the same place on my other toe. Now that I knew how much it hurt, I was far less willing to go back. I entered the office just expecting a check up from a different doctor. However, the new doctor made it clear that this was urgent, and if it wasn’t taken care of quickly, the infection could spread to my bone. I was presented with four options: Do it raw like last time, go under twilight (basically taking a drug to calm me down) or try the numbing shots and then remove it.


An interesting thing about me is that I am entirely immune to twilight. It doesn’t work on me, and hasn’t for the past ten years. The doctor also strongly recommended not doing it raw, as this toe was way more infected, and doing it raw would hurt far more. However, there was one more option that the doctor brought up. For a while, I was asking to be put to sleep while they removed the object, but we couldn’t find an anesthesiologist willing to do it. The doctor did. My parents didn’t want me to do it, as anesthesia can be risky, but that had been my number 1 choice for a long time.


I was stuck between two options: Get the shot in the toe and get it removed now, or wait a week, and be put to sleep and have it removed painlessly in the hospital. The thought of the money my parents would have to spend, and having to deal with this pain for another week (and the bribe I was offered) eventually pushed me to steeling my nerves, and letting them do it there.


The new doctor was incredibly compared to the old one. The shot only hurt when reaching the bottom nerve, and while bad, it wasn’t unbearable, and was only for a few seconds. In addition, this time, the numbing worked, and the doctor was able to remove the object with absolute ease. The procedure wasn’t bad at all, I just had the wrong doctor doing it the first time. Now, both toes are fixed, and I can walk comfortably.


Two possible questions for this blog that I want to ask. Option 1, What is the most painful thing you ever experienced? Option 2, what was your worst medical experience?

Comments

  1. EvaNovember 19, 2023 at 10:29 AM

    Yeesh, having something stuck in your foot sounds rough! I'm sorry that you had to go through something so painful. To answer your question, though, the most painful thing I have experienced was probably nearly biting though my lip when I was, like, five. I may not remember the pain, but that is probably one of my worse injuries that I sustained throughout my life.

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