Losing parts of my body

One of the things that happens to many runners is getting black toenails, and no, I am not talking about using the fingernail polish either. A black toenail, for runners at least, is usually caused by trail running and accidentally kicking a rock or tree root, or something similar to that. The second way, is you end up getting a pair of shoes that are slightly too small and when running down a steep downhill section, you repeatedly slam your toes in to the front of the toe box on your shoes. The latter, is usually reserved for the idiots and stubborn who don't walk down the hills on that first run.

I can't say I have a glorious tail to tell about some great trail run... Yep, I didn't walk down that really steep hill in those new pair of shoes and I was having problems with my feet hitting the front of my toe box.

A couple days later, I noticed that part of my toe nail was turning black. No big deal, I didn't slam it that hard and it didn't really hurt, kinda felt like a bruise.

Fast forward a couple months

Last night at 5 in the morning one of my legs had an itch on my left leg, and when I went to scratch it with my right foot, I felt something weird. I was thinking, wow, that feels really weird, it feels like I have a toenail flopping around. At the same time, Kristin woke up to go to the bathroom, so I had to turn on the light and look and see what was going on, which proved my suspicions were right.

My toe nail was just hanging on by one small strand of skin. I was able to gently pull on it and the toe nail came completely off. Evidently that toenail had been dead for quite a while because there was a new toenail underneath it. It was already grown about half way up my toe! I was happy to see a new toe nail growing in though.