Bo-4
Senator
If you are squeamish stop right here.
Ever get a fishing hook embedded into one of your little toes? I did this morning, and here's how it must have happened.
I was organizing tackle on garage workbench yesterday just before sundown prior to walking to our lake at dusk to catch & release a nice 2 pound off the dock using a popper plug. Apparently i dropped a size ten red multy-barbed hook on the garage floor and stepped on it last night on a quick trip out to the garage to grab something out of my truck. It attached to the underside of my sock but caused no problems all of last night.
This morning i get out of bed and stepped on it in a way that flipped and impaled it halfway through my next to smallest right toe. Painful is an understatement. I go to take my sock off and it won't COME off.
So i hopped like an injured rabbit to the bathroom and realize that it isn't a tack or small nail as initially suspected. Getting panicky and in terrible pain, i hopped to the junk drawer in the kitchen to grab a pair of needle-nose pliers. Since it wasn't hooked clear through, no way to pull it through point first and minimize barb damage. The barb just behind tip of hook was halfway in and no choice but to AAAAAAAAAHHHHH --- YANK IT!!
Thought about calling 911, but figured they'd probably do the same thing. Sooo.. a self-yank it was, and i don't EVER want to have to do that again. I'll leave the volume of bleeding and size of the hole it left to your imagination but what a relief to get it OUT OF THERE.
Ever get a fishing hook embedded into one of your little toes? I did this morning, and here's how it must have happened.
I was organizing tackle on garage workbench yesterday just before sundown prior to walking to our lake at dusk to catch & release a nice 2 pound off the dock using a popper plug. Apparently i dropped a size ten red multy-barbed hook on the garage floor and stepped on it last night on a quick trip out to the garage to grab something out of my truck. It attached to the underside of my sock but caused no problems all of last night.
This morning i get out of bed and stepped on it in a way that flipped and impaled it halfway through my next to smallest right toe. Painful is an understatement. I go to take my sock off and it won't COME off.
So i hopped like an injured rabbit to the bathroom and realize that it isn't a tack or small nail as initially suspected. Getting panicky and in terrible pain, i hopped to the junk drawer in the kitchen to grab a pair of needle-nose pliers. Since it wasn't hooked clear through, no way to pull it through point first and minimize barb damage. The barb just behind tip of hook was halfway in and no choice but to AAAAAAAAAHHHHH --- YANK IT!!
Thought about calling 911, but figured they'd probably do the same thing. Sooo.. a self-yank it was, and i don't EVER want to have to do that again. I'll leave the volume of bleeding and size of the hole it left to your imagination but what a relief to get it OUT OF THERE.