I have shrek feet.
Or perhaps orc feet. They’re pretty gnarled and funky in any event. Look at the job they have to do.
Right know I’m awake and it’s not because I think 2:30 is a hella cool time to be awake, but because a little flap of dead skin on my left big toe decided to come almost loose and feel like a nail was being driven into my toe whenever it touched the sheets. I would just be drifting off to sleep and I’d be all like, hey what’s biting my toe? And then it would stop and id drift off again and then I’d move again and if be like wtf? So I used the flashlight feature of my Android phone to illuminate the area while I carved the bleeding and painful offending flap of dead skin off with my pocketknife.
And of course now I can’t get back to sleep.
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I have a highly similar problem in summertime, since I go barefoot a lot. Skin starts to peel from the sole of my foot and if it’s not dealt with, it’ll hook on carpeting and get yanked and tear and bleed–
I use nail clippers to keep that crap in check.
Bag Balm is your friend……
Dude … one word …pedicure.
Been there… except I have eczema so its really dry dead skin.
Cuticle scissors and a good coarse emery board, or just a rasp from the garage. Oops, I mean a dainty little pumice stone with a pink plastic handle!
Actually, an oscillating sander and 220 grit paper do a suprisingly good, yet gentle job keeping the heel & ball-of-foot calluses down to a reasonable density. Just pay attention to what you’re doing, so you don’t sand down into fresh flesh.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
I get big patches of callus/dead skin on my toes as well. I’ll soak my toes in apple cider vinegar every now and again to kill toe fungus and as a side benefit the dead skin just peels right off after that.
Grishnakh and Gorbag?
It’s our own fault. Men treat their feet like they treat their women. We only give them attention when they’ve become a huge, aggravating pain in the ass, and it becomes unavoidable.
Is it still called a pedicure when you need a farrier to get it done?
Wait’ll you have diabetes. I go once a month to the local Senile Center where I have my hooves pared by a damn skilled ol’ biddy with the expertise and a 60KhZ rotary tool equipped with tool steel bits. She pares my toenails and the calluses on my feet leaving them as purty as a yaller pup. $15/month seems steep until you figure in the socks and bedsheets I’ve shredded over the years, that and my pore ol’ dogs don’t hurt any more. That old woman’s a Godsend.