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I hate warts. I hadn’t had a single wart on my body until a few months ago, when I found something weird on my left hand. It was quite uncomfortable, and I found it

Wishing it away for a month didn’t seem to stem its flow. So I did the only thing a man could do in his situation, ask my G.P. to freeze the bugger off!
The freezing process itself was a little painful, what is most annoying however is that over the course of a week the wound on my hand had blown up into a big blood blister type thing, and hadn’t changed.
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It was quite hard, and if you look closely you can see the remainder of the wart ‘head’ in the center of my blood filled thing.

Being the inquisitive guy I am, I decided that I would put to use my trusty Sypderco knife and open up the wound to see what’s happening inside.
Surprisingly there was quite a lot of blood in there, and once I had drained most of it I started to make a bigger hole to peek inside. Surely I thought after 7 days I’d have some funky fresh new skin!

It looked pretty bleak in there, and what’s worse it looked like the wart had somehow survived! There was definately a distinctly white piece of something in my hand inside there. So I ripped off most of the outer dead skin and cleaned up the old congealed blood.

Here’s a photo the day after I opened up to have a look inside.
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Looks pretty good so far, here’s hoping the wart is gone forever!!!