No sign of reinfection—always a good thing—and the green color at last appears to be fading as the skin heals. The wound with the gray in the center (the left-hand wound) seems to have started growing some skin, and the skin seems to be growing somewhat inside the wound instead of just papering over the wound like last time. I have no idea what's going on with the darker right-hand wound, which looks basically unchanged to my untrained eye. But there are no surrounding signs of infection, which is always a good thing. I might have good news to bring the docs on the 16th.
It'll be a different office and thus a different team this time; I'll be sure to bring these photographs so they can trace the history of the wounds and the healing visually. This new team will give me the culture results, so I'll be able to confirm whether this was indeed Pseudomonas. And I'll ask the team what I can do to avoid such infections in the future (I'm guessing it'll probably come down to: Keep your toe dry).
One nightmare that just occurred to me would be to suffer a relapse of this crap while I'm on the trail and away from medical facilities—just me, my antibiotic ointments, and my alcohol wipes. Not very reassuring. This whole situation is also a reminder that I'm still very much a creature of civilization. I may be an "independent" introvert, but like it or not, I still need people. That's hard to admit.
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