My Fucking Toe Nail

I share this with you, oh blogosphere, because it's 5:41 am and my fucking toenail fell off.

It sounds really gross, ne? Well, I mean, besides the fact that it was my toe nail, and it fell off, it really isn't.

I looked this up. I may have had a fungus... but a fungus that only attacked my big toe? But, whatevs.

Ok, truth is I noticed my nail becoming all dry and crackly a little while ago, not too long ago, but there seemed to be a clear division between the thick, crakly, yellowish sickly looking toenail, and some healthy growth from the nail bed, so I figured that it would grow out and I just managed to fux it up but good doing something. As my tow wasn't in pain, and was functioning as it normally did, I decided that that was the best course of action.

So, there I am, trimming my nail, and trying to dig out the part of it that's always on the verge of being ingrowing, and *POP*, it just pops itself out like a false nail. No blood, no pain, no numbness, nothing, it was just a dead piece of nail.

And I'm like "Well then, what the hell is underneath?

Towards the nail bed, what I thought was a division between healthy nail and funktified nail, was, in fact, a whole new nail growing in, and a thin layer of nail already goriwng underneath the dead nail.

Thinking back months and months, I remember all those times I wore really uncofortable shoes within the past six months, and, you know what? It wasn't that my feet hurt in general (I mean, they did... that's what you get for looking so stylish), it was that THAT TOE NAIL hurt specifically. Really, it did. It felt like something really heavy had fallen ontop of it and stayed there.

And then in January someone steppedon it pretty hard, accidently.

And suddenly all the pieces fit together, and I start to believe this is my foot's equivalent of saying "Fuck that, I'm starting over"

Of course I'm keeping it wrapped and watching it to make sure it doesn't swell up or get infected or anything, cause that'd suck.

It makes you think (or me) what an amazing thing the human body is - fungus or just a series of events that fucked up the nail, it self-regulated. It began to fix itself. I think that's pretty neat. I give the human body major props for being able to do that.

...I don't care how it does that: I'll leave that to the science type people.