Originally Posted by Zeus

Bot - great story, well written. Glad your toe is better, sounds like you had a nice little run with it.

I had something similar happen, infected little toe. Got real bad. Went to the hospital and the doctor gave me a prescription for antiobiotics which I took and which accomplished the sum total of something less than nothing. Came back and doc said if the toe doesn't get better, I'll have to be hospitalized with intravenous antibiotics. So, I went up to my wife's (girlfriend at the time) cottage and pulled a Rambo. Drank some booze, got my wife (med student at the time) to lance the green ooze filled blister with a swiss army knife. She did so and a bunch of green pus oozed out. Smelled strangely like a cross between a stinkhorn in full bloom and the batch of vomit you forgot to clean from under the sofa when your parents got home from vacation and you told them you didn't throw that party your neighbours are referring to. After she lanced it, she doused it with isopropyl alcohol. That...hurt. Healed up nicely after that.