Warts and Verrucas

I've got a cluster of 3 verrucas on the sole of my right foot, most annoying they are. They've been there for a while, but they haven't really bothered me too much. I was at the Wart Clinic at our local GP a month or so ago, and the nurse there whacked some liquid nitrogen on them, but it hasn't done much. I've been using one of those 'home freezing' kits, but it's been equally useless.

It's not the first time I've had a run-in with warts or veruucas. When I was a wee boy, no more than ten, I had warts all over my hands. I literally had at least one on every finger of each hand. It was terrible - I felt dirty and unclean every time my fingers rubbed against one of the warts. I nded up trying to hold my fingers at weird angles so they didn't brush against the warts I knew were there. I had them for about a year or so, I think, during which time my parents tried the usual creams and ointments from the doctor. Eventually the doctor burned them off with liquid nitrogen, although it took at least 2 visits.

Ever since then, I've had a slight case of OCD when it comes to keeping my hands clean. I've got a very particular ritual when it comes to washing and drying them, which I do several times a day. That probably wasn't helped by my mum accusing me of having 'clammy, rapist hands' later on in my life, when I was hitting puberty, which also gave me a bit of a complex about my hands getting sweaty.

Fun times.