tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289980603342614959.post7516775034250831956..comments2023-09-08T05:00:33.505-07:00Comments on The Banshee Tree: Witchy Stuff FailSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14588835944653961490noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289980603342614959.post-44030661019095217752010-08-28T19:32:44.782-07:002010-08-28T19:32:44.782-07:00This makes me smile. Not because I'm smiling a...This makes me smile. Not because I'm smiling at your failure as a naturowitch, but because it makes me think of times I have done similar experiments. And gotten similar (read: far worse) results. <br /><br />The cotton puff burn? I'll one-up that right now. One time I got a staph infection in my face. (The first time of the two times, that is.) I picked it up in a pseudo hostel in Granada, the pseudo hostel where Daniel and I rented the bottom bunk of a set of twin-size bunk beds that had a thirtysomething pair of German students renting the top bunk. Sounds like a paradise for contagions, right? Well, when I had oozing things, formerly miniscule blemishes, on my face the day after we left the pseudo hostel, I figured it was a fungus from that place. Why a fungus instead of bacteria? Because the oozing didn't respond to antibacterial ointment. We were still traveling, so I tried alcohols and fungicides and vitamin E oil and tea tree oil, whatever I could remember my naturopathic doctor from home suggesting for skin care...nothing worked. We came back to Texas, I started my small town paper reporter job (no health insurance) and continued with my experimental treatments rather than seek a doctor and conventional treatment. In the end it was 14 MONTHS (!!!) before the infection finally cleared up. <br /><br />So I think it's great that you gave these single trials and stamped them as failures rather than persisting for 14 months trying to make them work. :o)Billi London-Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10246140888366869367noreply@blogger.com