The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, October 4, 2021
A Podiatry Fairy-tale
by Adam Possner
This little piggy went to market,
this little piggy stayed home,
and this little piggy, well, he’s sick
poor guy, got a case of the
fungus-BigBad Trichophyton
blew hyphae under his nail,
turned it to porridge,
ragged like a witch’s tooth
or hunchbacked troll,
horrid as an unkissed toad.
Probably caught it from someone’s slipper.
The crystal ball of randomized, controlled,
double-blind trials shows half of such nails
will magically change from ugly duckling
to sleeping beauty by the stroke of twelve
weeks of Lamisil taken orally.
It’s no genie in a bottle,
no knight in shining armor
,just your best chance for
a happy ending.
“A Podiatry Fairy-tale” by Adam Possner MD. © Adam Possner. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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