When I was 12, I was a gangly kid "finding his way physically. I was already 6 foot, and my shoe size was already 13. Anyway, in the month of June, I started to grow this growth on the outside of my left big toe. As a kid, I ignored it, thinking it would go away. Well June became July and the thing grew and looked as big as a cherry tomato. The touch of it caused major pain, and it bled and pussed. Well On July 4th, I was at a bungaloo in New Jersey when I took my shoe of in front of my mother. She flipped when she saw this thing protruding out of my toe. I remember hearing firewroks outside as my mom was asking me 1000 questions about this thing on my toe. Anyway, the next day we went to a doctor who curtly said "We will have to amputate the toe". Telling that to a 12 year old is traumatizing. Well my mom was having none of that, so we went to a bunch of other doctors and found out it was an "Exostosis". They ended up doing TWO surguries on it, and I had to wear sneakers with a hole on the big toe for about 6 months. I was a laughingstock of school because I had a hole in my shoe with a cherry tomato sticking out of. My grandmother also thought spray painting my sneakers grey was a cool idea. Oh boy. I definately cooralate my gambling to that incident. I started gambling at 12 when I couldn't play sports, my stepfather committing suicide, and the Red Sox losing the World Series. I shit you not. I added apicture of an exostosis. Mine was a lot larger, but it should give you an idea of what I had. Thanks for letting me share.
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. Celtics better counterstrike soon!
