I'm in the same boat! I hurt my toenail last YEAR and it's taking forever to heal. Basically I did something to it (still have no idea what) that caused a HUGE bruise under the nail. So whenever I get the blood pumping it would throb and be painful. So I stopped doing anything-and gained back 10 pounds.
Now it's almost completely normal (yay!) so i thought it would be safe to go running. WRONG! I ended up getting an infected toe and the doctor told me to stop
. He said that if I exercise I'll likely get another infection cause I'll sweat. It's so gross! And annoying cause I'd worked myself up to running a mile straight! I was sooo proud of myself. Sigh.
I'm thinking maybe the bike could work for me. Do you have a pool you could use? The chlorine is good for healing and it would be low impact on you.
We just have to start thinking outside the box
.