Blisters

Posted by Kuzo at 01:06 AM on July 01, 2005 | TrackBack

I thought long & hard about what to do about my blisters last time I visted the mikvah. I'd developed them the week before by wearing some very comfy shoes with no socks or hose & because I walked a long way in them, well...

...so I had these huge blisters which I left alone & by the time likvah night came, they ad "disappeared" in the sense that they had totally deflated & were invisible. The mikvah attendant wouldn't be te wiser. But I would be.

I thought about looking it up in hilchos niddah, but I decided it would be easier just to pick them off after my long, epsom-salty soak. I did. What a nightmare. I kept pulling more and more skin away, which luckily didn't tear deeper so I would bleed, but it just wouldn't stop. There was always more dead skin to remove. Like a Pandora's Box of chatzitzah. Oy.

And it was all in a really awkward place to get to on my feet - I had to me a six-year-old contortionist with Circe Du Soleil to really get at it all.

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On July 1, 2005 at 01:37 AM, eden said:

Ha! Kuzo, I've done the same thing. :-)

But I asked the mikvah lady one time, and she said as long as it's intact, it's always better to leave a blister alone - it's only once you start that you have to finish! Hanging skin needs to be removed, but for dead skin, I think it's enough just to be softened.

Now I try not to start picking at a blister unless it's already peeling...

On July 3, 2005 at 04:04 PM, kuzo said:

Ah - good to know, eden. I suspected that, but my own sense of perfection lead me to strip it down. Thanks, for this. I'll know for next time...

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