Seriously though, if anyone can video it or point me in the right direction for a tutorial online, I’d be grateful. If ‘Make’ do a how-to-do article I’d subscribe.

I once stepped on a wire coat hanger from the cleaners. The tip of the hook went fairly deep. It seem to heal fine, until six months later I developed an abscess that made it difficult to even walk. They put me on heavy duty antibiotics for 24 hours, and then a specialist came, cut open the abscess (fluid spattered on the wall behind him six feet away), and stuck a large Q-tip inside my foot and dug about. This was quite painful as analgesics have little effect on abscesses. Once he finished, I got up and fainted from the pain, knocking the instrument tray over. Tests came back negative for any infection. No further treatment was given, except I was to soak my foot in epsom salts each night.

The abscess recurred within a few weeks after the incision closed. I decided it was better to be a gimp than to go through the same painful procedures again. Then one day, the abscess ruptured though the incision. While cleaning the wound, I noticed something sticking out. It was sort of nightmarish, the feeling I got when tugging on little flap of something, then slowly pulling it out to reveal a perfectly formed circle of skin about the size of a fifty-cent piece. It even had print ridges.

The moral of the story is if you have a puncture wound that abscesses, it isn’t always a sign of infection. There could be a little part of yourself growing inside. Your physician might never consider this possibility.

“Principles.”

Could you elaborate please Mark.

If I may be so bold:

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