August 2009
6 posts
Blog Hero - Tree Man of Indonesia
To start at the beginning of the wart saga, click here.
I’d like to take a break from my rather mundane story (seriously, are you guys really reading this blog?) and tell you about someone who truly suffers from warts: Tree Man.
I have been fascinated by the Tree Man, who lives in rural Indonesia, for some time. Dede is in his mid-thirties and seems like your average Joe fisherman who...
Warts - a journey
To start at the beginning of the wart saga, click here.
Part Five - Adventures with Holistic Hippie Nonsense
As someone who is continuously plagued by things that ruled and ruined lives of my brave predecessor Bostonians like Abigail Adams (seriously, that HBO series where she battles small pox gives my blog the finger), I am a fan of using the best the 21st century has to offer to combat...
Warts - a journey
To start at the beginning of the wart saga, click here.
Part Four - Living Room Surgery (beware, gory post, not for pansy stomachs)
At this point, I had weakened the wart considerably. True, it was still there, but an interesting thing was happening. I could pick at it, and it began to come out! I was still focusing on the motherwart at this point; after a few days of steady picking, I could...
Warts - a journey
Part 2- Freezing the warts.
I decided not to mess around and went to my doctor who froze the warts with a canister of liquid nitrogen. It didn’t hurt too much. The warts turned white. I went about my life doing things that have nothing to do with warts. Nothing happened.
Over the course of 3 years, I had the warts frozen every time I went to the doctor, which was about 3 or 4 times....
Warts - a journey
To begin the blog, it is only appropriate to discuss my perilous and infinite journey with the dreaded plantar wart. In this section and others, I will chronicle how the warts came to be, and the various methods with which I fought them. The good news is, the warts are currently in retreat (as of writing, July 2009) and for those of you suffering from warts, I hope you will find my various...