For those of you wondering how my infected aching foot was doing, here's the lowdown:
The slow, slow improvement could not be due to the antibiotics. When antibiotics work for a skin infection like that, it works pretty quickly. That's why the doctor originally prescribed just a week of pills.
Friday night, I still felt the heaviness and periodic "toe strangulation," though less frequently and less intensively day by day. I remembered a "hair root" infection in one of my fingers when I was a kid. The doctor opened it , pushed out the pus and cleaned it. I was tempted to perform that sort of minor surgery on my foot. But it was Shabbat and I wimped out.
Then I remembered green cabbage. I had first read about using the leaves of green cabbage on abscesses over thirty years ago. One of my neighbors who works as a natural healer recommends it for all sorts of things. Very siyatte diShmaya, hand of G-d, conveniently, there was a nice big green cabbage in the fridge. I took off a leaf and wrapped it on the afflicted spot, using a cotton sock to hold it in place and then I went to sleep.
Over Shabbat I changed to fresher leaves and yes, Baruch Hashem, Thank G-d, I felt better. OK, I also rested; I wasn't on my foot much.
I'll finish the second week of antibiotics which ends very conveniently on the Eve of Passover.
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