roaminblue
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I was working abroad and was trying to remove some barn floorboards, they were so old and the nails they had used were shite but somehow I couldn't get one of these nails out. So i cut the head of the last nail with a pair of bolt cutters and pulled the board over it. So instead of a nail head it had a jagged serated edge to it.
I didn't think too mcuh of it because i had work boots on, but anyhow, i then turned my attention to one of the railings that seperated sections of the barn as they needed to come out too, so i climbed onto a ledge, took the head of one of the nails in that railing and jumped down. I jumped right down onto the floor board nail, and it went right through my work boot, and about 2 inches into my foot.
I've stepped on a nail before, and fell on one with my knee, but somehow as it wasnt the pointed edge, this one was agony.
I went to the hospital, and they said they'd removed all the crap, gave me a tetnus injection, a pair of crutches and some valium and sent me on my way. about two days later my foot swelled up to the size of a human head and it hurt like hell.
So i went to a non-emergency dr in town and he had a look.
after rooting around in their for what seemed like forever, he took out several small bits of nail and a tiny piece of my sock.
I didn't think too mcuh of it because i had work boots on, but anyhow, i then turned my attention to one of the railings that seperated sections of the barn as they needed to come out too, so i climbed onto a ledge, took the head of one of the nails in that railing and jumped down. I jumped right down onto the floor board nail, and it went right through my work boot, and about 2 inches into my foot.
I've stepped on a nail before, and fell on one with my knee, but somehow as it wasnt the pointed edge, this one was agony.
I went to the hospital, and they said they'd removed all the crap, gave me a tetnus injection, a pair of crutches and some valium and sent me on my way. about two days later my foot swelled up to the size of a human head and it hurt like hell.
So i went to a non-emergency dr in town and he had a look.
after rooting around in their for what seemed like forever, he took out several small bits of nail and a tiny piece of my sock.