Surgical Correction for My Little Toes

About to inject local anesthesia

My mum used to say I have very lady-like beautiful small feet, not too wide and not too skinny, nice looking when wearing high-heeled shoes. (My mum has wide feet and so do my sisters.) Of course, that was when I was younger. After so many years and after going through so many ups and downs in the walks of life, my feet were no more beautiful.

I walk a lot, like to walk and have to walk a lot. For protection of toes and for comfort, under my long pants are usually a pair of men-style closed leather shoes (which have wider vamps) for ladies. I hardly wear dress shoes with closed vamps unless necessary because lady shoes usually have narrow closings which can cause pain, corns or hammertoes. I like wearing open toe dress shoes or lady sandals. To avoid widening of the space between the big toe and the second toe, I don’t wear flip-flops (Japanese sandals). I also apply lotion and foot shrub regularly to prevent cracks which are eyesores when wearing lady sandals. In short, I love my feet and do my best to take care of them and they have not given me any big troubles.

Despite all of my care and effort, my little toes have been bothering me for the last two weeks. Both of my little toes grew prolonged nails which caused me pain, especially when wearing high-heeled shoes. I thought it was just very minor problems and could easily do away with it by cutting off the “extra nail” but I was wrong and the pain continued.

To solve the problem once and for all, I decided to go for surgical correction in Betong Hospital . The doctor who treated me was Dr. Sukree who has been transferred to Betong from Bangkok for three months. The friendly and professional attitude of the doctor and nurses eased my worry. Nevertheless, it was really painful when injecting the local anesthesia into my already painful little toes, I nearly cried.

Surgical correction in progress

It was just a minor surgical procedure and the whole process took no more than half an hour. After they were finished with me, and with the permission of the doctor and the next patient, I was allowed to stay and watch the surgical procedure of cutting off the hard core on the toe using laser. There was smoke and burning smell while cutting. I was eager and at the same time, scared to see. As usual, I covered my mouth with hands for the whole course. …

I am forced to wear Japanese sandals for a week. They make me look funny and they are inconvenient. Well, it is just one week and then I can fly…yeah!!