Kirsten said after I pointed out a red dot on either side of my neck just above the collarbone.
"Ringworm!" I dashed to the bathroom mirror to take another look. "How would I get ringworm?"
"You can get it from stress," she replied.
Stress. God dammit. If those seventh graders have given me ringworm, I'm gonna be really ticked off.
"Let me look again." Kirsten took a better look under the light above the sink.
"That's not ringworm," she stated indignantly, as if I had been the one to suggest it in the first place. "That's from your jacket or something."
Of course it wasn't ringworm, I never said it was, but it did make for some nice drama on an otherwise quiet evening.
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I was actually wrong about how ringworm is spread...I'm wrong about most medical things.
Here's more info for paranoid types...
www.astdhpphe.org/infect/ringworm.html
kwin
i hate the word "ringworm" almost as much as I hate the infection known as "ringworm." ICK. So glad you don't have that.
Ringworm, skin irritation - anyone could have made that mistake ...
Speaking of worms - have you listened to the Alito hearings? Ugh.
My dad had ringworm as a kid (he lived in the age of Laura Ingalls)- and now he has this ring pattern on his head - luckily he has a full head of hair which he will never lose. But the pictures from his time in the service are FUNNY! Still - yuck!
ew. i wouldn't put it past a middle schooler to give you ringworm.
it's not as bad as syphillis, but it's still gross.
i've been watching a show on steroids. your back can break out big time with those things. don't juice!
(i realize this comment is a bit of a nonsequiter). (sp?)
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