re: On a lighter note, I have my first ingrown toenail..

Hope you never get a hemorrhoid while on the board. Keep your Opelika problems to yourself man

I had to have them removed from both sides on both big toes. I had the first one removed my senior year of high school. I had it removed on a Thursday and played a football game the next night. The procedure was not painful in my opinion, but the relief of not having the ingrown nail was great. It bled like a stuck pig for a few days then after that I had no ill affects. I had the other three removed in the years after. they give you a shot of litacane (SP?) at the base of the toe. Then they use clippers to cut straight up from the end of the toenail to the nail bed. Then use hemostats to pull it out (might be some scalpel work as well). Then they put some kinds of acid in the incision to ensure it does not grow back. It is pretty freaky to see your toe smoking from the acid, but you do not feel anything. I have a good tolerance to pain so the recovery wasn't bad, but my brother had it done and limped around for about a week so to each his own.

Yea I had done the whole cutting a V and everything, and I dug it out a couple of time, but it kept coming back. The straw that broke the camels back was when it got stepped on in football practice and I wanted to cry and vomit and crap my pants all at the same time. It was infected and I was trying to tough it out.