Shaving - Danger Pay Required!

Some of you may recall that I had a post entitled "The Art of Shaving" posted on 15 January 2006. Well, this is more about that same painful topic - literally painful. I just got out of the shower, getting ready for tonight's festivities with Car 69, and now, instead of one gross suppurating wound on my left lateral posterior ankle from two weeks ago (that has gotten infected) I now also sport a bit of bright red blood trickling down my right ankle in the exact same place, from just ten minutes ago. Wonderful...

Those blasted ankles! You would think that the fatty flexibility of the upper thighs would be what gets on in trouble, but no, it is the skinny, bony ankles with that one vein running down the outer very bony portion that gets me all too often. Ouch.

So now I need to cover both up. The left side injury is really just too sensitive and disgusting to leave open - the wound is just awful and quite visible. It was a small cut originally and then the next shaving sojourn took a layer of skin off on top of that and I had to put something over it and it was on too tight, too long and now the whole thing is terribly infected.

The right one is just a cut but these are much like paper cuts - super sensitive and sting at the slightest provocation. So one hates these kinds of injuries. Big huge lacerations are not nearly so uncomfortable - you go into shock and suddenly don't feel a thing! But little tiny cuts are quite painful - annoyingly so and of course with real paper cuts on your fingers, every subsequent piece of paper you touch will find its way into that unprotected cut!

OUCH!

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