It started out as three little bumps on his arm. They formed a perfect, tiny, triangle. At first, I thought he had been bitten by something, and wanted to keep an eye on it. Before we knew it, the three little bumps exploded into about 75 of them, running along his arm, and on his left side!!
We took him into the doctor. doc took one look and said, ‘oh yeah, I know exactly what that is. It’s a type of wart. I had them when I was in the military, but they were on my butt. I had to have them frozen off; then had to sit! It was not pleasant.’
‘A’ was thoroughly amused that the doctor said, ‘butt’, since that’s not a word we use at home. For an adult to use that word, and a doctor no less, he thought it was hilarious.
The doctor issued a cream for us to try. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. We tried it for about a week.
It didn’t work.
Soooo, back to the doctor’s for Plan B. Freezing them…
The doctor had just started the freezing process, when ‘A’ said he felt like it was just like when you eat wasabi. The doctor started laughing and said that was the best thing he had heard all day.
‘A’ was doing pretty good, so I decided to take a picture. I said, “say cheese”, and he said “cheese”. Just as I took the picture, his face changed from saying ‘cheese’ to saying ‘OW’. I had no idea which expression I captured, and cracked up when I saw that this is the one I caught…
He did such a great job. It was obviously painful, and he had to ask the doctor to take breaks. He cried a bit when the doctor tended to the ones on his side.
Here is the post-treatment picture after they were all frozen. A few days later, they started falling off and his arm and side is currently full of little scabs.
