Reply #61: Nope...no invasive procedure when I injured myself and the cut was

[ForrestGump]

right where my big toe joins the foot...this metal's a bit more proximal, in the ball of the foot. I haven't seen the X-ray in ages but it's a slightly curved piece of what is almost certainly metal (I think vaguely shaped like an isoceles triangle, with the sharply pointed corners turned up a little), not too thick but big enough that I'll never understand why I don't feel it (or, of course, how I didn't notice its entering my body). Weird.