Don't read while eating.

Okay, so my hand has hurt all week right? Particularly my thumb nail and my pinkie. Not sure why these two fingers hurt, they just did. Well yeterday morning, I wake up and my thumb nail is oozing something and the side of my pinkie next to my nail is white and swollen. It looks pretty bad so I e-mail my mom who is a nurse and she sends me these graphic web sites about fingernail infections. It didn't look like any of those so when we went grocery shopping and my wife said to ask the pharmacist if he recognized what it was and what he recommended to buy to cure it. So I show him my hand and a look of terror comes over his jovial middle-aged face.

"Oh...my...God, " he says with the look of absolute horror on his face.

Well, needless to say this wasn't the reassurance that I needed but, after several minutes, he was able to compose himself enough to recommend some Neo-sporin and band-aids.

Long story short, the neo-sporin has done wonders but they really should train pharmacists better at controlling their emotions.
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yuck.

CarrieMpls said:

Yeah, it's been pretty yuck.

sorry. hope you are better.

but, pharmacists aren't usually required to look at the erm, symptoms

XxAxX said:

Yeah I know...it was medical advice on the cheap but it was a proper ointment related question. I didn't know it looked THAT gross.

Your mom seemed into it.

GottaLetitgo said:

just remember to find a less squeamish pharmacist if something happens with your, you know, nether regions

2the9s said:

She spent like 1o years becoming a nurse but other than a short stint as an elder care place she didn't pursue it. So we get free medical advice from her all the time.

Those sites she were sending me had pictures that would have sent that pharmacist into convulsions.

XxAxX said:

The Captain could have had a field day with a thread like that.

GottaLetitgo said:

already been done. remember imago's rash?

XxAxX said:

Good point.

GottaLetitgo said:

Neo-sporin is a wonder drug.

ooze is such a gross word


that's when you know your partner must love you
get better gotta (ewww the thought of you typing... )

GottaLetitgo said:

for now. but those drug-resistant staph infections are really, really scary.

btw - I really like your kitties in your avatar.

CarrieMpls said:

you know i was going to say something about them too. they're adorable

emm said:

Wearing multiple band-aids and the ooze has stopped.

GottaLetitgo said:

maybe you could change this thread's title to "The Ooze Thread' and we could all share our ooze stories

CarrieMpls said:

I;m making some sort of statement with them but I have no idea what it is.

XxAxX said:

I have made the proper modification.

ooze stories? ok here is an explosive ooze story! once when i was in seventh grade i was riding the bus and this huge sneeze overcame me. a string of snot about seven inches long shot out of my nose onto my mitten and MAN was the gross.

XxAxX said:

I'm going to the doctor tomorrow to be safe. I read a story one time of a man who cut his finger and like three days later he was dead due to an infection. So I'm definitely getting it checked out.

XxAxX said:

That's the spirit.

GottaLetitgo said:

yup. it's nothing to mess about with. i read (on the net) that it can kill in 72 hours, in extreme cases

I left out one part of the story so plase do not read if squeamish.

When we got home, we did what the pharmacist suggested. That included poppping the pus bubble on my pinkie. So my wife, all too enthusiastically, volunteers to use one of her diabetes needles and when she pricks it, it was a weird color. She kept looking at it and calling it gross but then she kept asking to look at it again. Then she said the pus was not oozing out fast enough and she said she would have to prick it again. And damn if she didn't come down on my finger with the force of 1000 thunderbolts. Very nasty stuff. But today nothing which is a good sign.

GottaLetitgo said:

sounds like a good old-fashioned boil

XxAxX said:

I think I got a boil and an infected fingernail at the same time. Unfortunate coincidence.

GottaLetitgo said:

have you been soaking it at all? like, in salts or hydrogen peroxide? peroxide is really useful for infections. it bubbles air into the wound and bacteria hate that

let's see if we can break the current ORG record for longest thread here