In 2011, Zack had a small wart on the top of his foot. We went to the pediatrician and had it frozen off. It blistered in the next few days and Zack ripped it off. The wart seemed to be gone. Then he wore shoes all winter long and we never noticed that the wart had started to grow back (in a ring around the original wart, called a ring wart). But in the Summer of 2012 when he started to go swimming and wear his shoes less, we noticed. We went back to Dr. Byrum and he tried some injections of two different medicines. It did nothing. We did this three times, with no luck. Finally he referred us to a dermatologist. March 19th was our first visit with Dr. Gibson. We were hoping he'd just cut it off and we could be done with it, but he doesn't want to "scar" our child. [He must mean more mentally than physically.] So he is doing a series of freezing it and putting blister medicine on it. Then, each night we wash and dry his foot, put compound W on it and a piece of duck tape. We've seen Dr. Gibson twice. He seems to have a view of self importance and we continue on this path. Hopefully it works before we brake the bank paying for all these co-pays.
September 2012
The nurse scraping on anything she can get off the ward at our first dermatologist visit on March 19th, 2013.
March 21st, 2013
At the second dermatology visit on April 10th, 2013...
That night after having it frozen and blistered again on the 10th...
April 13th, 2013
April 21st, 2013 after a home treatment of Compound W and before the duck tape...
Our third visit to the dermatologist on the 2nd of May, it had improved greatly. Just a bit of a scab left.
Dr. Gibson froze it and put the blister medicine on it one more time to make sure we got all of it.
Cross your fingers that it is gone FOREVER!
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