DYING

My toenail has been dying the past few days will eventually face an inevitable death. Right now, it is still holding on dear life as only 3/4 of it has turned black. Give it a few more runs, I’m sure it will be completely black, numb, and die a natural death and eventually fall off.

Strictly speaking, a toenail is already dead to begin with, or at least the outer most portion. It is the bursting of blood vessels underneath the nail plate (the visible portion) that causes the nail to appear “dead”. It is actually blood over the nail bed (or skin underneath the nail plate) and under the actual “toe nail”.

I’ve been wanting my dad to puncture it so that the blood would rush out and release the pressure, which causes the feeling of numbness. What he does is that he gets a really big needle, usually gauge 16 (i think) or my mom’s largest sewing needle and sterilizes it by putting it over an open flame causing it to be red hot. What he’ll do is puncture the nail plate just enough to release the trapped blood, releasing the pressure. Then he’d put a band-aid to prevent the entry of any foreign material into that tiny hole that might cause infection.

Unfortunately, my dad was out of town and could not do it for me. My sister, who is a dermatologist (dermatology is that branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the skin, hair, nails, …) but she doesn’t want to do it. She says she knows the principle but has never tried doing it and doesn’t want to start. Hahaha! She told me to let it die and it will soon fall off eventually.

DYING, DYING

I tried to run fast today… and I was dying. Haha! I haven’t been to ULTRA again in a while so I tried to do interval training earlier tonight before dinner and before studying. I initially did a 15 warm-up, followed by 4 sets of drills. My mind was set on doing 4×1000m at my usual pace of 4:30 +/- 15 secs… after one set, not even completing the 1000m, I felt I was going to collapse. I either went too fast or my body just gave way and hated me for pushing it too much. Hahaha… In my mind… dying… dying… dying… I’ll need to build up my base once more. I’m really back at zero.

DEAD

Or at least I will be. 4 exams this week. As mentioned in my prevoius post, this coming week is definitely HELL WEEK for me… Monday (Transportation and Public Utilities), Tuesday (Public International Law), Thursday (Negotiable Instrubments) and Sunday (Tax1). At the rate I’m going, I’ll be dead… either dead because of studying or DEAD on exam day with not much to answer, considering my mind has very little time to recover. Hahaha… hopefully all goes well.

I’ll still try to sneak in a 5km run as much as I can.