Hi Lucille,
In your case, the cause of numbness was not a haematoma then. There are a couple of other possible causes affecting the sensory nerves, but if the condition appeared for no physical reason (like pressure on the nerves would be), this was probably the minus reaction of ((Nervous - Sensory Innervation|nerve)) tissue in stress phase of "not wanting/allowed/able to feel" - something concerning the toe, or "something distant".

There are no general significations of fingers and toes other than their functions and associations thereto. As example, a thumb may be associated with control or pressing down, or with liking/disliking things ("thumbs-up"), or with different other cultural or individual representations. 

In TCM, fingers and toes are end points of energy meridians, so one could investigate the energy flow between different qualities.
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The 4th toe has the end point of the gall bladder meridian, associated emotionally with courage and anger - so one might hypothesize if anger was not allowed to feel or to let go?

In reflexology, organs in the region of head and throat are represented in the toes, in 4th toe the ear for example. Also the gall bladder meridian in it's origin encircles the ear. So one might ask whether there was something you heard that made you angry and you had to suppress that feeling...
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