(Please read yesterday’s post first, if you haven’t.)  Well, after two days of toothpaste on my arm, I’m convinced it’s working.  I now realize that I had another Nairobi Fly sore on my wrist last month that I thought was a bacterial infection.  That sore was oozing plasma for a week, but the new one that I treated with toothpaste is already dry and well on it’s way toward healing.  I don’t think the scar will be nearly as bad as I was afraid it would be.

Who would have thought of putting toothpaste on a sore caused by smashing a black and orange beetle?  But it seems to work well.  The pain is much less and I think I’ll only have a 1-inch by 1/4-inch scar instead of a 3-inch by 1-inch scar like I originally thought it would be.