Tyloses

One month ago, I found a bump on my left index finger. Not sure how I got it but this bump slowly grew bigger by day. But I didn't feel itchy at all, it was just making me feel uncomfortable. I decided to cut it with my nail clipper thinking it was some dead skins. Thought of doing this would get rid of the bump once and for all. But I was wrong as this bump was reincarnated and got even bigger this time.

This is the bump after the treatment.

Not able to show you the before as I didn't take any picture of it.

I think this bump is not any ordinary dead skin, friends around are not professional or doctor but they all said the same thing like me, "鸡眼" ji1 yan3 (a direct translation is chicken eye). Not sure what is it all about. Only know this kind of thing will need to seek medical treatment. Is just a matter of eastern or western treatment. I chose western treatment.

I went to a familiar skin specialist and she examined my finger with a big magnifying glasses and confirmed this is a Tyloses (viral skin disease) or in chinese was commonly known as 鸡眼. She said if I ignore the viral it will spread to other areas.

She gave me 2 options: Option 1. Apply the external cream at the affected point for one month. Option 2. Apply a kind of freezer on the affected point and later apply the external cream on the affected point for 1 month (she did not say anything about peeling off using a blade). Both options will eventually lead a brown colour dead skin to be formed after a month and I will need to remove the skin myself using a nail clipper.

I want a speedy recovery so I chose option 2.

The doctor then used a sharp blade to peel off the dead skin leaving an opening point. Her technique was good that I didn't feel a pain at all. She later took out the freezer tank, tried few pump (could see icy gas sprayed out) and poked it straight to my affected point for a few times, I immediately felt the sharp pain when the medicine sipped into the injured point. She said the freezer function was to freeze the virus to death. I could say it was a painful 5 minutes experience.

The whole process took less than 20 min and my hard earned RM205 was gone.

A white coat is formed after a drop of the poison.

This will take 1 month to recover and there is no need to avoid eating any food.

At night I went for wedding dinner and shared my experience with my relatives, they laughed and said they used to have it all the time (their faces didn't give a damn while saying this). What they did was became their own doctor and used a blade to peel off themselves and later applied chicken eye cream (bought from Chinese Medicine Shop). One of my auntie in her early 70s joked that the old used to believe someone must have accidentally dropped a rice grain into the stove causing the formation of this Chicken Eyes.

Last time when resources were rare and people were not as afluent as now, the older gen tended to do things creatively with courages. During that time no one talks about risk management etc...

I know this is a non relevant topic, somehow it just reminded me of my old times - "The Invincible Me", which is now slowly fading away due to lack of practise. I remembered I used to build a lot of my stuffs and to name a few of my significant masterpiece would be a bookshelf and mosquito net. I built them simply because time was a luxury and also knowing my parents would not have the money to buy them for me.

This picture below showed the very first 4 storeys bookshelf I built for myself using some recycled wood materials. I am proud to say the quality is as good as IKEA.

Nowaday I find myself slowly losing all of these creativity and becoming overly dependent on others for somethings of which I have the ability to build them.

The adage is right, "Use it or Lose it".