Heard on a clinic recording

Sorry, took me a minute to see what was wrong, because I was thinking "spread" as in to more places on your own body, as opposed to spreading to others contagiously.

ElaraSophia said:

*Feels like a dope*

Aren't they different things? I thought it meant that they're contagious (can be spread to other people) and they spread on your own body once you have them. Or is that standard for warts, and a given?

*Continues to feel like a dope*

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That's what I thought. If she's said "AND they can be spread," then I would have cringed.

I think of contagion as spreading from one entity to another, but I don't know if that's technically correct.

This probably doesn't speak well of me, but if I heard that, I'd be more worried about the "spreading" part, than about giving it to someone else

Judg said:

OK, so maybe I'm the dope. I didn't think that the spreading part was referring to spreading to other places on the same body. But isn't that still contagion?

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They can spread in size...and offer up a nice tart butter if you poke 'em...for your toast...which, incidentally, you can spread...with a knife. Let's not poke at my use of ellipses.

Judg said:

Plantar warts are just standard warts that happen to be located on the soles of the feet, which means they cause pain instead of just being ugly. They're usually burned off with liquid nitrogen. Had to have that done for one of my kids once.

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me too. incidentally (that's my word of the day) he's a hockey player. i feel the two are related, but i have no scientific evidence. incidentally, he is playing hockey in about an hour's time.

Plantar sounds like the name of a Herculoids villain.

Jcomp said:

Plantar sounds like the name of a Herculoids villain.

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I always always think of the Planter's Peanut Man...and I picture him under the skin of the sole of your foot--hurtin' like hell...like a peanut, or, more so like the pea that was under the mattress...but I'm crazy. What the hell do I know? I know I don't want a monocled peanut man under my skin, that's what!

Judg said:

Oh gee thanks, KTC. Now I'll spend the rest of the day trying to shake the image of plantar wart jam. With friends like you... (See, I can use ellipses too.)

LOL @ Jcomp. Plantar actually means "on the soles". Probably a Latin root, seeing as plante is the word for soles in French.

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So why didn't Paul Simon sing 'diamonds plantars of my shoes'? Why, Paul? Why?

Judg said:

Oh gee thanks, KTC. Now I'll spend the rest of the day trying to shake the image of plantar wart jam. With friends like you... (See, I can use ellipses too.)

LOL @ Jcomp. Plantar actually means "on the soles". Probably a Latin root, seeing as plante is the word for soles in French.

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HA! No pun, right. Root...goes deep in a plantar wart. A latin root growing up into your sole. Ouch.

Judg said:

OK, what have you been smoking? While I'm being grinchy, I just found out that Jermaine Jackson named his son Jermajesty. That pretty much qualifies as child abuse, in my books.

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Oh my good lordy, please tell me that isn't true?!

(and btw, I read it the same way you did Judg. It reminds me of Yogi Berra saying "And you get cash, which is just as good as money!")

Ain't we all

LOL! Well it's all a great read.

I had a plantars wart as a kid (from the pool) and plantar fascitis (sp?) as an adult. Let me know if there are any other plantars I need to do... not the Peanut Dude, though. I'm not doing him

I've had a plantar wart (I think) as a kid. It was something that looked real calloused and had these tiny black particles in it. Someone told me it was a "seed" wart? I have no idea. I just know it was opened, cleaned, dressed and went away.

I've also had plantar fasciitis. OMG! That was horrifically painful. And, of course, I got it when I was sent to Washington DC for a Patient Safety conference and had to do a lot of walking. I was in tears every evening when I got back to the hotel.

This brings back horrible memories. My daughter had a plantar wart (from the shower at the pool, methinks) and we had a devil of a time getting rid of it. It hurt like hell and, yes, it spread and she ended up with three on the same foot. She had to wear socks around the house, which she hated, so the rest of us wouldn't get it because, yes!, they're contagious too. I think the fact they're contagious and they spread are, indeed, two different aspects of the horror that are plantar warts.

We ended up with a homeopathic remedy using a poultice of bread and vinegar duct-taped to her foot overnight. The thing turned black and we plucked it out root and all, after a whole lot of screaming (she was only 6 at the time).

<shudders>

In time the Planter Peanut man
Will haunt your dreams as best he can
With pincers on a waving shoot
To pluck the peanuts from your foot

And stop the vicious naming trend
That decent nicknames now must mend
Of childrens' names like "god" and "Apple"
"Jermajesty" and other crapple

Before these thing get out of hand
And spread, contagious, through the land
Oh, Peanut Man, come do your part
And cure the awful plantar wart!