Monday, December 3, 2007

It´s never just a blister

It was late and I was tired. So I bathed and went to bed. I was all snug in my bed when my foot began to itch. I went to scratch it and felt a bump. So I go and grab my flashlight to examine my foot, thinking I had a clump of mud stuck to it. I look and all I see is a blister. So I lay back down and go to sleep.

The next day I am hanging in a hammock worry free with my feet all up and relaxed when I see a string dangling from my blister. I lean forward to remove it. As soon as I touch it the string retracts back into my foot. It is at that point that I got grossed out. I had a worm of some sorts living in the bottom of my foot. So I go show some people and Kaitlyn volunteers to remove it.

We go outside where the light it nice and bright. Everyone gathers to see this freak show. They even bring along their cameras. It´s even more funny because the families of two of the other SM´s were visiting and just grossed out by what happened to my foot. Anyways, as soon as Kaitlyn cracks open the house of my worm, eggs start pouring out of my foot. Every time we squeezed the thing more eggs would leave. It got to the point where there were not anymore eggs leaving my foot. So we called it quits.

Well, the doctor comes by later that night and I decide to show him my foot for good measure. He says that the egg sac ruptured in my foot and there is still stuff in there. So he goes and takes some sort of clamp things and starts tearing into my foot. It felt like he was pulling out my flesh. And again, everyone gathers to watch. After what seemed like forever, the doctor gets done. He says it´s all gone. I ask him again just to make sure, cause the thought of a worm traveling around random places in my body and laying eggs concerns me. He reassures me he got ¨todito todito¨.

Lesson learned: Always wear tennis shoes in muddly places.