Evidently I made a mistake on Sunday (for a change! ^_^) When I took off my shoes and found blood on my socks, I showered the broken blister for a while, dried it with a clean paper towel, and slapped antiseptic salve, gauze and skin tape on it. This was not ideal, I have found from later reading.<\/p>\n
When I grew up, broken blisters were a fact of life, and only sissies whined about them. But these days, it is a quite serious condition, it seems. This is due to more aggressive, multi-resistent bacteria which have spread throughout most of the world over the last decades.<\/p>\n
So far, I seem to be doing well enough: There is only a small red patch around the wound in the morning, although walking a lot makes it larger. It is not healing, or at least very slowly: There is still a little red on the gauze each morning and afternoon when I change it, although I think it may be less today.<\/p>\n
Perhaps I should go to a doctor, have the wound re-opened and then closed professionally. But 1) there’s probably still a 4 week wait for doctor appointment unless one is at the brink of death, and 2) clinics are where the superbacteria gather. So for now I am just following it warily, dressing it twice a day, and not walking\/jogging more than an hour at a time and only in waterproof shoes when it rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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