Puss

Original post date: Thursday, March 06, 2008


Puss

Okay, what do you do when you are getting ready to go on a long trip?

Heather and I are leaving for London tomorrow and so we are getting ready.
The usual packing and picking up the house so it is halfway clean when we get home.

I start packing and being the person I am, I am trying to not bring to many clothes, I have a problem with over packing...you never know what your emotional state is going to be so you have to bring a lot of options. I am standing there packing and thinking hmmm, my toes aren't hurting as much as they were earlier. You might be asking, did I just read that right? Yes, you did.

You see I have this really bad habit and to be honest it is really gross, but you are about to hear about it since you are reading my blog. I will sit, watching tv or just sitting doing I don't know nothing really, well if my shoes are off my hands find something to do. I pick at my toenails, yes I know I told you it was gross. Well sometimes I get carried away and I just can't get that one little piece off and I start digging and pulling and well sometimes I get a little to greedy. Yeah I guess that is the proper word, greedy. I just can't leave well enough alone. And my toenail ends up in my hand, my whole toenail, or just half of one side. I usually know it when it happens and I think, shit that is going to hurt later.

This time it hurt later, it hurt a lot. So much that I was actually going to go to the doctor because I didn't want to be walking around London with a hurt toe. I didn't make it to the doctor today.

Alright so anyway, what do you do when you are getting ready for a trip? I apparently, pack my clothes and put safety latches on the cabinets in our bathroom, what you don't do that? And amongst all that stuff I sit down on the edge of the bathtub.

And with pulsing red toe in hand I start working again, this time the pain is immediate and I get that taste in my mouth, you know it tastes like metal cause it hurts so bad. But I am trying this time to help instead of mutilate. I told you this was going to be gross. I have my toe and I am squeezing, I can see it wants to come out and finally there is that painful relief when the puss finds its way out from under the remaining toenail. So I keep squeezing and then I douse it with alcohol, you know, I don't want it to get infected again. Did I tell you I did this to a toe on each foot? yeah - I was working double time and wouldn't you know it both got infected and I got laughed at a lot at work today because I was walking like a gimp.

So the grand ending of my story is that I think my toes and feet are going to be fine so I can make my way around London with no pain, well I am sure there will be some pain but it just might be residual pain. Pain from my toe, red and pulsing, red and pussing.

Well I am off to bed to get on a plane and sleep some more.