Toes

Husband/partner and I have been married for almost 23 years.  Strange things happen after that amount of time.  I am on some strong cardiac medicines which have many side effects; one of which is sleep disturbance.  I was awakened at 5 AM this morning extremely painful toes on my left foot.  I thought I had bumped them yesterday while working barefoot in the back yard.  The longer I laid in bed, the worse the pain became so I got up to examine toes.  They looked like my usual toes.  As I stayed up for a while, the pain gradually disappeared and I went back to bed and, thankfully, to sleep.

When I finally groggily got up, husband/partner was clanking around the bedroom.  I said, "Boy, do I have some weirdness to tell you about".  He interrupted (he always interrupts me) and said, "You know, the other night at dinner I wanted to tell this story and I didn't get a chance."  The dinner was with 2 other retired  nurses (friend/partner Paula, friend/partner Jay, and his mother) and we were trading medical horror stories.  Husband/partner proceeded to tell me this story:

"One day, I was making rounds with the residents and attending physicians.  We walked into a lady's room and asked her how she was doing.  She said, "I only have nine toes".  Sure enough, the medical student determined that she was correct.  She said, "I had ten yesterday".  Further questioning brought out the fact that said toe had been gangrenous black for a month and the lady was a diabetic.  It was presumed that the toe had died and fallen off somewhere."

It's called synchronicity when something so bizarre happens.  I said to husband/partner, "How did you  know my weirdness was about my toes?"  He replied, "What are you talking about?"  So, my weirdness with my toes just became even stranger yet.

What I want to know is, if he can subconsciously figure out that I had a toe problem during the night, why the heck can't he figure out what I'm bidding??