The 1 / 3rd part remaining was fine, it was normal in color and it was still attached to the nail-bed. From there, all I had to do was clean up the exposed nail-bed by clipping away a lot of the hardened, dead skin carefully to not damage the nail-bed itself.
After a few washing ' s more, this allowed the color of it to appear as normal as my skin-tone.
All the discolored nail was cut away. So the yellowish color was gone. It didn ' t appear as ugly to me although the majority of the nail was now missing. This helped me in a psychological way. So I knew it would help greatly. My hypnosis sessions focused mostly on reminding my subconscious that the body already has a natural means to regrow the nail. I would have to just step back and allow it by only feeding it positive thoughts. I would have no more issues with being embarrassed because the thumb was normal in color now. Less noticeable. No one had to know it ever was associated with a fungus. No one had to know that I had dealt with it for over 15 years. It was simply an injury and the body would take care of it on its own. No need to think about it any longer. I could move on and work on other projects. Again putting it out of my mind so to speak.
I did this for only a couple nights by using a recorded hypnosis induction to help me get into the right trance. Thinking about the above-mentioned affirmations and using creative visualization the best I could while I was in that trance. Those were my entire sessions. My mind quickly accepted it. Expecting of course that the body would take over as I was busy focusing on other things.
I researched and learned that the natural time frame for a nail to grow completely is 6 months. Because of my age at least. In older adults, some additional factors may play a role that could take longer, such as circulation in the blood, diabetes and such. In most cases, a nail will grow 1 / 10th of an inch each month reaching its full growth in 6 months. A toenail, however, takes longer, up to a year and a half. Three times longer. During the next 6 months, all I did was make sure that when I trimmed my other nails. I trimmed the thumb as well, making sure it was trimmed back to where it was always attached to the nail- bed. This was the only maintenance and thoughts I had on the nail