6 months ago I had to have emergency abdominal surgery. I was in surgery for 6 hours and had to stay in hospital for a week afterwards. It was only my abdomen that was operated on.
But when I came round one of the first things I noticed was my big toe hurt. I was on lots of painkillers so didn’t think much of it but a few days later when staff were trying to get me mobile I struggled to walk because of my big toe. The nail had gone black and think and there were traces of blood on it, like something had been dropped on it or it had been pinched. I’m fairly certain it was broken as , even now, it still looks a bit bent and the last bit of black nail is growing out.
I’m not looking to assign blame or anything, I’m just really curious as to how this actually happened. I was incredibly unwell before my operation but I’m 100% certain that my toe was fine. Even if something was dropped on my foot I’d have thought it would injure the whole foot rather than just the toe. Or maybe poor circulation/ it being cold in there might have caused it? But wouldn’t that have just damaged the nail rather than the toe itself? Or could it have been caught in something while they were wheeling me along in the bed and not noticed?
Is this something that does happen sometimes? As I say, I’m not upset about it, I just can’t work out how it happened or what happened and it’s really frustrating.