Thanks. My doctor is about a 30 minute drive away. It would have had to be the ER or nothing. And of course with my doc being the way she is she'd want to see it before telling how to treat it or giving me anything. I have triple antibiotic cream. And I'm not afraid to use it!

hydrogen perioxide - buy several bottles every time i shop! great to cleanse - just keep dumping it on fresh cut to disinfect.... the docs always recommend it..... on stiches - i've waited until the next day when the cut was in a prominate place like my face - have some interesting scars caues i did wait until next day - cause had already started to close and they would have had to re-open and stich close again -- in those cases probably worth going to have stiched as soon as possible if the scars will bother you....

isnt pn fun?

for you sweet little toe, when my Mama did that miracles happened!!
Besides a stitch would of caused more nerve dammage,which would
of caused more cuzing,with would caused you not to be amused. If is
turns red cut it off, what did i just say,never mine. It must of
been the fever. Why i would never tell you cut off your toe,i'm just
in a state of . Let's see,kiss ,kiss,bad stitches,bad cut
rotten glass. There that's it,and Mel your flowers look
purty as a picture. Sue

--it's looks like you did the right thing; considering you were fairly sure there was no glass in the cut--likely if the bleeding was free, but then stopped during a normal clotting time--the protocol of cleanse and protect seems to have done the job.

You'll likely be sore for a while, but that shouldn't be anything time won't fix. Feel good.

How are you healing and feeling? I was just thinking about how for many of us isn't it scary how we have to fear going to the doc because it may flare up are other issues. Well I hope your hanging in there.

Tell me and tell me now, say the kisses worked or did the dang toe
fall off????? please tell me???

ROFLMAO!! Yep, mama's kisses were the best medicine. The stitch, yes, exactly my thought. More nerve pain and damage when I have more than enough to deal with it as it is.

Today, the actual spot is still a bit sore but it's healing quickly and no redness or anything to worry over.

Toe is still attached! Doing well and healing nicely. Sorry to worry you! This has made me laugh much!

That is *so* true. If my cholesterol isn't down a good bit by Jan I think it is, my doc said she was putting me on medicine for it. Ummm...no, you're not. I already have PN and those kinds of meds are known to cause PN. Is she nuts?? More likely uninformed. I'd rather have high cholesterol than PN. I'm working on the cholesterol with diet, exercise and supplements/vitamins. That's as good as it's gonna get.

Good. She can't put you on it unless you agree. You may know more about it than she does.

A doc "put" my aunt on a statin. I had her taken off it immediately, got her to take an excellent fish oil with extra EPA and DHA, cut down on transfats and take other carefully chosen supplements.

The changes in her labs amazed me. I know there would be good changes, but didn't dare hope for that good. Her "bad" cholesterol came down a little bit, but her "good" cholesterol came up a lot. We got her blood pressure down too.

If you have the collection of cardio problems and high cholesterol, drugs may be helpful. But if not, they could be disastrous.

rose