And I don't mean this figuratively.
Fifteen years ago I took a warty-looking mark on my foot to my (former) doctor who told me it was a pressure point. So I ignored it. Then about five years ago my "pressure point" sprouted numerous warty-looking babies. My new (and obviously superior) doctor confirmed that they were in fact warts, all off-spring from the now very well-established Mother of All Warts.
We froze. We Compound-W-ed. We injected bug venom. We froze and Compound-W-ed some more. Last spring, we cut them all out. I had FIVE huge wounds in my foot, which I will not describe in detail. Just use your imagination and then some.
They came back and brought some babies with them. Apparently all that fresh tissue is the perfect thing in which to grow new warts.
You are wondering, about now, why I am sharing this obnoxious information with you. I'm wondering this too. But since we got this far . . .
Last week I saw a dermatologist who prescribed Fluorouracil -- a topical chemotherapy -- and duct tape. Weird huh?
Guess who has 3 fewer warts this week?
And I suppose that is why I am sharing it. If you are anyone you know is suffering from persistent reoccurring warts and you are not afraid of a tube of chemotherapy and a roll of duct tape, this post is for you!
But you will want to know that you won't be able to walk properly, as instead of getting better each day, the pain gets worse, as the treatment is basically to put on your body some goopus that eats holes in whatever it touches.
2 comments:
Good to know. I have one on my thumb that has been Compound W'ed "to death," except not really, because it sprouts right back as soon as it is "gone," and it has sprouted a baby on its next-door neighbor finger. Will have to make a note about the medicine and talk to my doc. At least it's not my feet; been there, done that, no fun!
Apparently if it is a Compound W resistant wart you are blessing it by applying C-W as it damages the tissue around it and makes it vulnerable to hostile take-overs.
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