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A few years ago I was walking barefoot across our living room carpet and a 3 inch needle went straight in through the tip of my big toe. About 1.5 inches went into my toe and the needle snapped off at the point of entry. I had no idea what I had stepped on as I did not see the part of the needle that was not lodged in my toe. I thought I had just stepped on something sharp, like a carpet tack. I walked around with the needle inside my toe for three days.
The pain finally got unbearable so I went to the Emergency room. The x-ray was pretty cool. You saw my big toe with a spear of metal sitting right down the center of the toe.
To remove it the doctor cut a small X at the point of entry. He then took what looked to me to be a pair of needle nose pliers and attempted to pull out the needle. The needle, being slick with blood, slipped off the pliers spraying a small amount of blood across the doctor’s face and causing me pain like I had never felt before. The doctor decided to numb me up a little bit more and the next attempt to grab the needle was successful. The happy ending is I was able to wear slippers to work for the next week.
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