Please for the love of all things tell me I really don’t have multiple patches of ring worm on both ankles?!
I mean for crying out loud, I’ve worn flip flops every day for every shower for seven months now. Surely, I can’t have ring worm.
A month ago, I finally took myself into medical because the itchy “bug bites” hadn’t cleared up and it had been over four weeks. I quietly suggested ring worm. They looked at me horrified and handed me a bunch of packets of cortisone cream and told me it looked like bug bites.
Well alas, here I am another 4 weeks later and we are back with the full-on red itchy, classic ring worm circle. I told the kid – really he was likely not even born when I entered the military – that it had to be ring worm.
He pulled out his phone and Googled it then held his phone next to my ankle to compare. He told me he needed to go get the Major, who was much better with dermatology issues.
Now I’m smothering these suckers in anti-fungal cream, still wearing my flip flops in the shower. As a side note the water in the shared showers here rises above your ankles every time and the shower curtains (the likely culprit) then sticks to your legs. It is definitely as gross as you are imagining.
But hey at least we have showers.
Oh Lesley