I had to perform some surgery on myself last night. My “pointer??” toenails – the ones right next to my big toe have been MAD at me. Yesterday I straight up thought my right toenail ripped off while running on the tredmill (it didn’t). I had been running through the toenail pain long enough and I needed to fix the problem.
After numbing my toes with Orajel (which is for teeth, but I swear to God for any toenail issue I’ve had it’s helped numb the pain – I lost toe nails on the regular during basketball season). After close examination of my toes (thankfully I’m pretty flexible) I realized I had blood blisters – YUCK. So I sterelized a pin and SWEET relief I popped them. I put some bacitracin on them with socks and woke up today feeling like a new woman.
I am to blame for the blood blisters. The sneakers I was running in for ALL of June and July were a size 10.5 – work ordered them and they only had sample sizes up to size 10 which were snug and stupidly opted for a 10.5 instead of an 11. I much later realized that all the other sneakers in my closet were 11s. When I was home I got fitted for sneakers at the Nike store and I grabbed 11s, but when the Nike peeps were fitting me they told me I should be wearing an 11.5 (so I would have a thumbnail worth of space between my toes and the front of the shoe). Crazy considering in regular shoes I wear a 10, but I need to remind myself that sneakers are not regular shoes. It’s weird how even with my feet I hate being on the large end of the scale. I actually couldnt even find any 11.5s at the store that I remotely liked. Yes I know you shouldn’t buy sneakers because they are pretty, but I’m not gonna buy sneakers that are FUGLY. I ended up having to get mens 9.5 that are decent looking (pictures to come at a later date).
So yes I’m glad I got new sneakers (that my mom paid for as a birthday present along with compression shorts and an awesome dress). HOWEVER – I have not worn my new sneakers yet because I was a fat fuck while I was home and I decided that I’m not going to wear them or use my nike+ sensor until I hit my 35 lb goal, which the shoes and sensor are the reward for….I’m CLOSE, but not there yet.
Now that my blisters are popped I’m gonna see how my toes fair in my 11s, but if they start to act up then I will switch into the new sneakers becfore I hit 35lbs just because I don’t want to do further damage to my toenails.
If you have some toenail issues check out some of these links: http://walking.about.com/od/blisterfoot/a/blacktoenail.htm
http://www.time-to-run.com/women/footcare.htm
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