a while back, we experienced a loss.
andrew's left toe nail got seriously injured during basketball. i mean we only have 10 of these little nails, and as hard as we tried to keep it, that black and blue nail eventually fell off. now if any of you have ever had a similar experience, growing a new big toenail is no easy feat, and andrew has had quite the time of it :)
as we were going through this struggle, i kinda gave andrew a scare that he had developed a fungus. (think inception, but on a much larger scale...first i threw the idea out there, casually...he denied it. then i started googling 'toe fungus' pictures, reading symptoms...etc.) about the time we had andrew rubbing vick's vapor rub on that big toe--has anyone tried this? supposed to be a great home fungus remedy--i knew my comment had gotten to him. long story short, let's just say i teased his way into the office of a podiatrist within a month.
this story isn't all doom and gloom...there was no fungus!! but the doctor did offer andrew this handy dandy toe sleeve for the low, low price of $10. andrew thought he had struck gold until it got all stretched out on day 2.
but the real reason i post this grotesque picture and story about a foot is that it is so characteristic of my husband...if there's a problem, he fixes it right away. (i need a dose of that in my life. instead i just let my knee bother me for months and never figure out the problem.) plus i just think my kids will look back at this picture and laugh at their dad like i do.
(P.S. if you want to see another basketball-related injury that required a funny apparatus, click here)
You should try getting him one of the rubber thimbles. It probably wouldn't stretch out as fast cause they are smaller.
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