As I previously posted that I cut my left foot big toe badly in Tioman. Actually even though it hurt and was sore I really didn't think that there were much about it. Still my lovely finnish friend commanded and helped me to clean the cuts, she is so wonderful! We arrived back from Tioman on monday late evening. I had nothing to do until thursday so I just chilled around and started to organize next weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur.
By the time the big toe started to get really swollen and walking started to get unbearably painful. So on wednesday morning I went to the university health care center to take care of it. I queued in the line and got to a see a doctor after 30 minutes, which wasn't so bad. He just gazed the cuts in my toe and stated that even though the wounds are deep there is no infection cause the surrounding skin is white. It was that, I think it wasn't even more than a minute. The doctor then redirected me to the nurses whom then cleaned my toe and wrapped it up. I also got some antiseptic cream for the cuts. The whole parade cost 11.38S$ from which the doctors counseling was 10S$ and cream the rest.
On wednesday evening we went to watch a movie titled Horrible Bosses with a group of seven exchange students and one local. The movie was actually a good comedy that I would recommend, even though after first 5minutes I realized that I had already seen it, damn you pirates! We had a lovely time. But it was by that evening my leg started to get really sore and painful to walk. We took a taxi to drive us back to UTown. My finnish friend went to get some antiseptics and other wound cleaning stuff from her room.
It was then when we realized that the problem at the moment wasn't anymore with the two cuts on the toe. The problem was a blister that I got on a first party night in Tioman trip from my flip flops. The blister had broken at the beach and some sand had gotten inside it and into my bloodstream. By that evening my foot was almost twice the size if you allow me to exaggerate a bit. The foot was really hot, red and painful to walk, the pressure was so vast on it. After my friend opened and cleaned the wound with sterilized needles it started to get a bit better.
When I woke up on thursday, almost all of the swelling had gone and I started to head to my first class in the NUS. It took me around 35minutes to find the classroom on first day. In the end I had only two hours of school that day so I didn't think that it was bad to walk around a bit. By the time I got back from the classes to UTown my feet was hurting again, I was sure that we didn't get all the sand away yet.
In the evening I had some running duties concerning the trip to Kuala Lumpur, I had to collect the money and arrange all the cancellations and get some replacements. That wasn't really relaxing for the foot.
So after all fuzz in the evening, I again got some help from my lovely finnish friend. She opened my wound again and took care of it. We noticed that there was still sand and almost like black blood coming out of the wound. We cleaned the wound and I tried not to cover it for the rest of the day and night.
My spanish roommate was also helpful providing me some anti-inflammatory drugs that he had gotten from his mom who is a doctor. He also told me to keep the leg up so that the blood pressure wouldn't be so rough in the wound.
For the next 5 days and over the weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur I ate the anti-swelling pills two times a day and cleaned the wounds and wrapped it up for three times a day. The wounds started to heal and the swelling got down.
Now when it has been around 9days from the accident the wounds are starting to get better. There is no signs of any infections and the swelling is gone. I still walk a bit different way cause I'm trying not to put any pressure to the big toe so that the wounds could close. It still feels a bit sore but I think it will be more than good by the end of the week before we are leaving to Bangkok!
Ps. I'm not going to post any pictures of my foot, it would just be nasty
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