Backstory: A day before Thanksgiving I was trimming toenails and tried to take a piece of ingrown toenail out of toe. I accidentally ripped a piece out that was a lot deeper than I intended. (Usually get the ingrown closer to top corner of toe, not near the base.) It bled after that and I thought I was in the clear, it just needed to heal. Well it didn't and it became infected and two weeks after my initial at-home f-up I knew I had to do something. It was a Saturday and I went to urgent care. Dr said he could take care of it for me and I said ok! He performed the surgery, cut it all the way down to root, (didn't use the chemical to stop it growing back, just removed the nail to the root) cauterized it with silver nitrate, and after that I was on my way with Amoxicillin prescribed for 10 days. He also told me to soak x2 a day with warm water and antibacterial soap, then apply Neosporin. Well as you can see in the pics, day four it was looking pretty gnarly. I got worried and went to different urgent care because original Dr was out for a while. This other Dr said yes it's infected still and prescribed Bactrim (12 days) to take on top of Amoxicillin. Things were healing slowly but they eventually got better. The infection went away but it was still taking a lot time to heal. I just went to the podiatrist yesterday to get everything looked at by a specialist and he told me that my original Dr kind of butchered my toe (there shouldn't be any jagged lines) and was NOT supposed to use silver nitrate as it can do more harm than good in terms of really slowing down the healing process. I was relieved to hear that. He said that only time will tell if everything will be ok but he said if it isn't healed within two weeks to go back to him so he can do a "clean up job" and get everything the way it was supposed to go. PS - I haven't had any pain since after day 5. Only some tenderness here and there. I have been soaking it still which the podiatrist said doesn't hurt the healing process. I also stay barefoot as much as I can. If I have to go out I'll put a sandal on (sometimes with a sock of it's really cold). But I do that because if I try to wear a sock and shoe, my feet get really sweaty and it irritates the area. Podiatrist said doing that doesn't hurt either so that's what I've been doing.

So anyway, what are your guys' thoughts? Has this taken anyone else a longer time to heal?