" cuts on the bottom of your feet "

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yesterday i went to Hua Hin, and while swimming the ocean, i cut my foot on the coral reef below. now, i know all about the supression of physical pain, but when you cut any part of your body in the ocean, you have to realize that the ocean is saltwater.

this means that every single second of my time playing in the ocean-likes, i had to stand the constant ringy-ding-stinging of this gash on the bottom of my foot.

today i went to Siam (a shopping mecca) and met a family friend to have lunch. the dull throbbing pain of my foot cut, multipled with every single step in the most bright sensational sort of way.

so, without futher ado, i present


"bay's short how-to doctoring oneself on minor cuts and scrapes"

when you get a cut anywhere, remember to clean it out properly with a cleaning or disinfectiong saline solution, after of course you stop the bleeding with applied pressure and keeping wherever the cut is above your heart,(if you can) . i mean, it's either that or pee on the cut, which could prove really hard if say the cut is on your back or elbow.

the next step is to dry the area properly with a steralized cotton pad, remove any loose frays of cotton from the wound, then apply some medicated balm. the kind i regularly use are bactine and neosporin. both have their own defining properties, but i find the bactine to sting like the dickens, and the neosporin has a cream solution that absorbs fast and doesn't leave that weird yellow stainy smell after a few hours, so that's nice.

the last step is to apply a sterile gauze pad or one of those new super johnson & johnson waterproof breatheable bandages that form to the mold of your body. yet another modern option is to use that medicated drying invisible salve that dried much like a band-aid, yet is still protective and coats like a bandage. yay modern salves, right?

all of these measures can ensure that your cut or minor wound, will affectively heal in a matter of days or at least under a weeks time. it's interesting how all of this seemingly useless information(when you don't have cuts of any sort) falls right into its useful place when you do have a pain. especially when it happens to be on the bottom of your sole.

happy self-administered doctoring!

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