Day 5

Disaster. Or is it "Disaster?"

Things for the past couple of days was the same old, same old. But today, I decided that I had to go for a run. After three miles, I came back home to this:

The camera is having problems focusing because of that tear in the skin. Does it hurt? Nope. It's the outer-most layer. It does look painful, though, doesn't it?

You'll also notice that the white area is quite big, especially compared to the pink, healthy tissue. That area corresponds to the cushioning pad on band-aids. I guess the vinegar from the cotton ball is spreading to the band-aid pad, irritating other parts of the skin. Oops. Something to keep in mind for future warts. Here's the same image with flash.


Notice how the tear has spread to the smaller wart in the lower part of the image as well. I also seem to be able to detect a delineation between the wart and the healthy tissue.

Well, out come the clippers. There's no way to make the vinegar-soaked cotton ball come in contact with the wart unless I get rid of all that skin. This is what I get:


A zoomed-in and overall bigger image, if you're into such things:


Damn that's nasty-looking. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what's growing within you if you have a wart.

Remember how I said that the above didn't hurt? I wasn't lying. It doesn't. However, having run three miles, I also had to jump into the shower. Instant pain. However, the pain isn't due to the wart coming in contact with water. It's from the fact that I'm standing up.

You see, the wart is on the ball of my right foot. Since I don't want to put any pressure on the wart and surrounding area, I'm lifting my right foot a bit and putting all of my weight towards the little-toe side of my foot (the lateral portion of my foot, as opposed to the distal side). For some reason, this is making the wart throb like crazy, with pin prick-like pain shooting from--if this makes sense--shooting outwards from the foot towards the wart, if you get my drift. That's how I know it's not due to the water.

In fact, if you've ever felt the pain of stepping on a tack, that's what it feels like, except that it's a burning tack. From the inside. Going out.

As I'm drying the wart, I can feel two bumps beneath the skin, something I wasn't able to feel before. It feels like two small marbles or big grains of sand right beneath the skin where the big and slightly smaller warts are located.

I've applied more vinegar-soaked cotton balls. Yes, it burns.

Question: What happened to the center of the wart? The dark tinge is gone...