lose a toenail

This happens to me every so often, from lots of running and otherwise being very active. It is a little frustrating, but another one developed recently. I took it off today, finally! There is always a little toenail growing underneath, when they fall off. Wierd. I will spare you all the photographs ;-)

My toenail went black after doing lots of running (not wearing proper running shoes) – it went wobbly (like a tooth – urgh) and then I finally pulled it off after it kept catching on things.

Only have skin now and a teeny bit of new nail – very hard to paint your toenails!!!

This happened to me more than once. The first time I got an infection below the toenail, and the doctor had to pull it. The other time I dropped a dinner plate on my foot, and it went black and fell off. It’s interesting to see the new ones growing back, but it’s better to have everything stay on.

I’ve lost a fingernail or two as well.

has returned to a regular toenail color, so I don’t think I’m going to lose it after all.

was when Berta, Kathy and I were all dressed up for our 40th B-days and I was wearing my super high heels. I lost 6 toe nail from all of the walking we did. That was odd, it took forever for all of them to grow back in!

I was wearing rental roller skates that had the size written in big red letters on the back. I didn’t want everyone to know that I wore an 8 1/2 ( I was 5-3 and weighed about 80 lbs. when I was 12. My mom called me Olive Oyl)so got a much smaller size. My big toe nail fell off.

and dropped a tent pole on my big toe. :-(

but it seems inevitable at this point so I might as well take credit.