My Kid Has a…
Keith | May 6Wart. My wife and I have been in denial for some time about this despite the fact his teacher and his grandmother said it was a wart. To those declarations we said “oh it’s nothing.” None of us are doctors after all. Yesterday my boy’s pediatrician said “well, that’s a big nasty wart. Kind of looks horrible doesn’t it?” She was semi-appalled by the sight and I don’t blame her. It’s gross. (The doctor also said it’s “nothing,” proving our original diagnosis to be correct.)
The bright side, the side that a dad can truly appreciate, is that it’s on his right middle finger. Think about it: whenever he shows it to people the bird goes flying! Truly priceless. Not only is he inadvertently giving people the finger left and right, he’s doing it to show people something nasty. These days we try to keep it covered with a band aid, but all that means is that he has to show everyone his Elmo bandage. This never gets old, trust me.
Who the heck, other than witches and strange old men, gets warts? Apparently kids do, and frequently. A wart is the result of a virus that can pass through a kid’s system in a few months, or sometimes a couple of years. Like the Chicken Pox, once you’ve built an immunity to the virus they are gone. Most adults have long since built up an immunity, but there are some people that have more trouble than others. These are the people we should teach our kids to ridicule - just kidding.
At the end of the day my boy is still adorable, smart and filled with little-dude ‘tude…. He just has a finger that you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark alley.
I had a wart for a year on my index finger. My son has had one nearly as long on his.
It just went away, but it’s demise had nothing to do with Wart Remover or Duct Tape. It just. . . went away.
Good luck.
Parents used to make us rub dandelions on warts to make them go away. Oh, we Texans are kooks aren’t we? But it worked.
I had one once when I was in college I think. It did burn away with some of those wart remover drops. As long as he doesn’t mind it though, there’s probably no harm in just letting go away on its own.
I really do think curing warts is one of the millions of uses for duct tape. But boys love gross stuff; I’d just ignore it.
I had a few on the bottom of my foot. That hurt.
I think people probably just don’t talk about their warts with other people. ;)
As a kid, I got plantar warts, which are like warts growing down into your skin, usually on the soles of your feet. I got them “burned” off with liquid nitrogen. Painful, but an exotic malady to tell my friends.
I had one on the tip of my nose when I was a kid…very annoying…and took a few special trips to various doctors to get rid of it.