When I get to Heaven (assuming the best) I'm gonna ask God..."why toe nails?" I'm wondering if God was in a funk the day he created toe nails (probably the same day He created the appendix...and molers) because they all seem completely useless.
Here's why I'm so turned off to toe nails.
So I've been in Arlington, VA for the past week but was getting a little antsy so planned a little excursion North. Of course the night before I was to leave for Philadelphia my right toe really started to hurt. (Keep in mind you my left toe nail is non-exsistent). You could say I have an on-going problem with in-grown nails...and if you said that, you'd be correct. So I did exactly what you're NOT supposed to do and went diggin around for it. After an hour of soaking and prodding, I pulled it out. (well I thought I pulled it out...turns out I missed a little piece). The nail itself wouldn't have been a huge issue except that being a diabetic makes me really prone to infection. So I shouldn't have been surprised that within a few hours my toe was literally purple. That little teeny tiny piece of nail was irritating my goop infected toe and I could not put a single ounce of weight on my foot.
This was the 5th or 6th time this has happened in the last few years so yes, the pain was awful, but more than anything I was just super frustrated. I tried to sleep but that throb kept me wide awake. I'm pretty sure that somewhere between the hours of 3 and 5 I got a solid REM cycle in but then it was back to tossing and turning. At 5:30 I gave up and turned my computer on to watch "How I Met Your Mother.' (On the bright side I was able to finish half a season that morning waiting for a podiatry office to open up). Anyways, I was finally able to see a doc for an 11 o' clock appointment, during which he took off the whole nail. He told me I should get both toes chemically treated so that no nail ever grows back. Here in lies the question (and the insanity of it all)...if I don't need em, why the hell do I have them?!?
Anyways, I got my toe wrapped up and headed to Philadelphia. When I arrived, hobbling in like quasimoto I explained the story to my hosts (who just so happen to pastor a church out here in Pennsylvania) maybe they have a teaching or scripture that would unpack Jesus's thought process behind toe nails...I sure as hell don't get 'em.
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