Welp about 10 minutes after posting that I was already out the door.

I told the doctor about all the stuff I've been doing to combat this ringworm and showed her all the spots that have already healed but now there's new sores. Despite my best efforts it's still spreading. However, it's way more under control now than it was.

She said the bleach is one of the best things for it. Keep doing that. She was also surprised at how proactive I was at treating it, using vinegar in my laundry, trying to identify the source, even going so far as to shine my cat down with a UV flashlight.

She then said, "oh, I've got a black light. Hold on, let me go get it!"

She then brought back a thing like pic related, turned off the lights, and shined it on me.

From the way the spots (some spots weren't even sores yet) on my arms and legs shone, you'd think I was @nosleep just coming back from bukkakecon before classes started.

She thought it was really cool and said she wished she had a student with her so she could show them what it looks like.

Said said if it's this bad from me treating it for two weeks with bleach and antifungal cream she could only imagine how bad it was before. Especially with all the (temporary) scars of all the places that have already healed.

So she's going to give me an oral prescription to help me fight it from the inside because it's kinda all over my extremities.

I'll hopefully be able to get that filled today.

Anyway, that's the current update on me committing fungalcide.

Anyway, I'm back home now. She apologized for the wait. She got held up with other patients and it kind of caused a ripple effect. She's trying to catch up but she said at this rate she'll be lucky if she can get half of her lunch break today. Just one of those days...

TL; DR: Keep doing what I'm doing. Continue to add vinegar to my laundry, continue to use bleach, the antifungal cream is pretty much optional if I'm using bleach but it won't hurt anything, and now add in a mix of antifungal oral medication and it should be all cleared up in a week or two.

She said I literally did everything right, the best way I could. I went above and beyond and there was nothing she could think of that I could have done myself that would have been better. She said bleach is one of the best things to do and something most people don't think about and then vinegar in the laundry is something almost nobody thinks of.

She said it's always a pleasure talking to me because I'm the only patient she has that cannot only selfdiagnose correctly but also treat that diagnosis in the best way possible.

She said she wouldn't have even thought of the blacklight unless I mentioned it.

She asked if I ever thought about going to med school and I told her that wasn't something I wanted to do. Medicine only really interests me at a surface level but my real passion is computers.

Honestly, I could probably become something like a medic or EMT with a little hands on training. EMT doesn't really work that way tho, one arm could cost someone there life, and that's really not something I want to do. I'm fine with just having first aid++ knowledge and being able to jump into action if needed plus knowledge and being like a 1920s doctor except actually correctly diagnosing then and treating them with actual medicine instead of mercury and bloodletting. Is there a word for that? Like a handyman for medicine and first aid?

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