Squicky Gross-Out Post of the Week
Somehow or another, I managed to get poison ivy on the bottom of my foot. The best explaination I can think of for this is that I must have taken the trash out late one night, after I had taken my shoes and socks off, and for some reason, I had to step off my front steps to put the bag in the outside can. That's really the only instance I can think of where I may have been anywhere barefoot, save the inside of my house (and I doubt I have poison ivy growing in there).
However it got there, it's been getting really annoying, since it's right under the arch of my foot. And it was starting to develop a rather sizable blister full of poison ivy goop. I wanted to drain it, but I obviously don't want said poison ivy goop to spread any further than it has already. So I decided to just be careful with it until it had time to heal.
Fast forward to last night, when the blister had suddenly grown to about the length and width of my thumbnail, was bulging out a good 1/4 inch, and was painful as hell. It looked and felt like I had a small rock imbedded into the bottom of my foot, and walking was just this side of impossible. So facing that, and having to work two jobs for the rest of the week, I finally caved in and did my homegrown foot surgery, armed with a heat-sterilized saftey pin and a paper towel to soak up whatever came out of it.
And damn, there was a lot of "whatever" that came out of it! It must have swollen pretty deep into my foot as well (which would explain the pain), because I've never seen that much liquid come out of a blister before. And it had this weird yellow-orange tint to it...Dunno if that's from it being a poison ivy blister, or if it had swollen so badly that some blood got into it as well, but after it all came out, the pain relief was instantaneous. I'll tell you one thing: Nothing makes someone appreciate the simple pleasure of walking than when they suddenly can't. And I'm relieved that I can walk again, even if my foot looks pathetic, all bandaged up and whatnot.
...Except now I have a huge crater on my foot...which is prolly still being affected by poison ivy...
...FML. 4srs.
~Kyetsu
However it got there, it's been getting really annoying, since it's right under the arch of my foot. And it was starting to develop a rather sizable blister full of poison ivy goop. I wanted to drain it, but I obviously don't want said poison ivy goop to spread any further than it has already. So I decided to just be careful with it until it had time to heal.
Fast forward to last night, when the blister had suddenly grown to about the length and width of my thumbnail, was bulging out a good 1/4 inch, and was painful as hell. It looked and felt like I had a small rock imbedded into the bottom of my foot, and walking was just this side of impossible. So facing that, and having to work two jobs for the rest of the week, I finally caved in and did my homegrown foot surgery, armed with a heat-sterilized saftey pin and a paper towel to soak up whatever came out of it.
And damn, there was a lot of "whatever" that came out of it! It must have swollen pretty deep into my foot as well (which would explain the pain), because I've never seen that much liquid come out of a blister before. And it had this weird yellow-orange tint to it...Dunno if that's from it being a poison ivy blister, or if it had swollen so badly that some blood got into it as well, but after it all came out, the pain relief was instantaneous. I'll tell you one thing: Nothing makes someone appreciate the simple pleasure of walking than when they suddenly can't. And I'm relieved that I can walk again, even if my foot looks pathetic, all bandaged up and whatnot.
...Except now I have a huge crater on my foot...which is prolly still being affected by poison ivy...
...FML. 4srs.
~Kyetsu