Playing footsy.

I don't know just how suggestible I am. I really don't. On the one hand, I've been injured enough to generally know when my body is really hurt and when it isn't. On the other, my hands sweat when I watch mountainclimbers on the television, and I tend to unthinkingly adopt the accents of foreigners as I am talking to them.

My veruca returned, despite my graphic and painful attempt to eliminate it. Worse than before.


I could barely walk the last couple of days. I went back to the podiatrist, who suggested a chemical treatment rather than going back under the knife so soon. The treatment he recommended is a topical cream. This particular topical cream, he explained, not only attacks the beast directly, but encourages one's immune system to attack the beast in its own right as well. "Sounds good," says I, and off I go to slather up my foot.

Come to find this cream is usually used to BURN OFF SKIN CANCER LESIONS. Yes, to BURN OFF SKIN CANCER LESIONS. Also effective on "warts, keloids, homunculi and nubbins," it reads in the fine print. Here's a description of the delightful stuff. I've been using it for two days. Which leads me to my opening query.

I am experiencing increased sensitivity to sunlight, a mild dyspepsia of sorts, and my secretary tells my pupils look dilated. I had a freakish sensitivity to sunlight as a child, but had outgrown that many years ago. Am I now experiencing this because I read about the side effects or is there some actual pathology at work? Might I be otherwise overdosing on Tylenol, which I have been taking by the handful, or might this be an interaction with the vitamins and supplements I take daily? If I use this stuff for a month, as suggested, will I come to shun the light like the blind cave cows we read about?