I called around to find one that had an opening and got him in at the beginning of December. The doctor poked his toe and, without numbing him up, cut out two large ingrown toenails. Ethan was a trooper. The doctor told us that Ethan has wide nail beds (which is hereditary) and that this probably wouldn't fix it permanently. Because both Bryan and I have had to get ingrown toenails fixed, we figured Ethan would eventually have to have his fixed too.
After a couple of weeks it was obvious that Ethan's toe wasn't getting better. So I made an appointment to have his ingrown toenail fixed and his wide nail beds thinned. So we went to have that done before Christmas.
This is what his toe looked like before having it fixed.
This is what it looked like after the doctor injected it 7 times to numb it. Ethan's toe didn't want to go to sleep so the doctor kept having to inject him with another shot. The poor kid was still in pain but he did the best he could.
The toe nail they took out was huge and there was a lot of blood. We couldn't believe how far in the doctor was able to stick his instruments. He put some toenail killer on the end of a small dowel and kept shoving it in to kill the nail bed. We were both amazed at how far it could go into his toe.
When the doctor was finished, he put some bandages on Ethan's toe and it looked HUGE!
Ethan spent the rest of the day with his leg elevated. It was strange because it was his right leg instead of his left that was elevated. He is still recovering but he hasn't been hurting anymore. He has a follow up next month to make sure it is healing well.
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