Good to know just they don't give me any trouble at all, so really no reason to have them taken off. Your mother's must have hurt, i guess, as she said why didn't she do it earlier. Decades ago chemist showed me a claimed solution, even then it was about $100 i remember so didn't bother. It's a fungus .. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/toenail-infection .
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”