It hasn't been feeling too bad, and the bruising is pretty much gone, but my big toenail never got color back. It's been about 5 days since I kicked that skid of paper, so I figured it was healing OK.

Wrong.

Turns out I broke the toenail off near the rear, under the skin. Now that it's growing back in, I can tell that one side is raising up, and pushes down easily. It's raised about an 1/8" (maybe a little less) and turning the skin right behind the nail red (be glad I don't have a digital camera).

I'm going to schedule an appointment to have it looked at ASAP once the clinic opens at 8. Gona have to go to one of those hospital places I fear so much.

I'm not really sure that they can really do anything for it though, short of removing the nail (oww) or taping it down and hoping it fuses back to the nail bed (just tried that with BET, was cutting off circulation to get it tight enough to bring down the nail)...

Maybe I'll get some workmans comp and off time from this even though I didn't want it...