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tarte tatin
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 Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: Verucca Blues |
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Yes just to put you off your tea, I can share that I have a verucca. A few hours after trying on some sandals in a shop I became aware of a pain in my heel. At first I thought I had a splinter but on trying to remove it became aware it was a verucca.
No problem I thought I can go to the pharmacy and sort it (husband had never heard of a verucca and was still persuing me with needle and tweezers). The next day we went to two pharmacies with no luck. In each the pharmacist shook their head gravely and said they were not allowed to treat it and I should go to a clinic.
In the UK you can buy an extremely effective treatment in all chemists and probably larger supermarkets too (Bazuka that Verucca) but why is it thought to be such a grave and dangerous thing here. I mean come on health and safety is hardly high on the priority list in Turkey! Luckily I am off to England in 13 days, yes I'm counting, so I can wait.
Honestly I have lived in 3 foreign countries and Turkish mentality is the most baffling yet.... |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| What's a verucca? I've never heard that term before. Maybe it has a different name elsewhere? |
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tarte tatin
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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A verucca is a plantar wart. They are highly contagious and are picked up in communal areas where people go barefoot, swimming pools, showers etc. They are not dangerous but uncomfortable and can spread quickly if not treated.
Verucca was also the name of a spoilt girl in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 
The pharmacies seem to sell everything else under the sun from viagra to wrinkle remover, baldness cures etc etc. The other thing that got to me was the total lack of privacy, one pharmacist could not be bothered to walk over and talk to us she just called across the crowded shop and asked what the problem was. If it had been something more personal it would have been embarrassing. |
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yaramaz
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Ah yes! Veruca Salt, what a spoiled girl was she 
Ge�miş olsun! |
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tarte tatin
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Baba Alex
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| tarte tatin wrote: |
A verucca is a plantar wart. They are highly contagious and are picked up in communal areas where people go barefoot, swimming pools, showers etc. They are not dangerous but uncomfortable and can spread quickly if not treated.
Verucca was also the name of a spoilt girl in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The pharmacies seem to sell everything else under the sun from viagra to wrinkle remover, baldness cures etc etc. The other thing that got to me was the total lack of privacy, one pharmacist could not be bothered to walk over and talk to us she just called across the crowded shop and asked what the problem was. If it had been something more personal it would have been embarrassing. |
mmmmmmm-warty |
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tararu
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I have never heard of verruca before.  I'm sorry my dear. Sounds a bit yuck.
mmmm...must buy more slippers...
mmmm...must buy some thongs for the gym showers.. |
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tarte tatin
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Veruccas sometimes look warty with a sort of cauliflower appearance, or as in my case they appear as a small hole with dark brown roots inside.
I remember a few years ago a friend of mine was heavily pregnant and asked me to inspect the soles of her feet as she had some discomfort. I picked up her foot and had a look, diagnosed a verucca and forgot the matter. The next day a verucca appeared on the end of my finger. Yuck!
Very contagious virus. Can't believe so many people have never heard of them. Perhaps we Brits are just verucca prone. Although I doubt it was a Brit who left the virus in the shoe shop in Samsun. |
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Baba Alex
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| tarte tatin wrote: |
Veruccas sometimes look warty with a sort of cauliflower appearance, or as in my case they appear as a small hole with dark brown roots inside.
I remember a few years ago a friend of mine was heavily pregnant and asked me to inspect the soles of her feet as she had some discomfort. I picked up her foot and had a look, diagnosed a verucca and forgot the matter. The next day a verucca appeared on the end of my finger. Yuck!
Very contagious virus. Can't believe so many people have never heard of them. Perhaps we Brits are just verucca prone. Although I doubt it was a Brit who left the virus in the shoe shop in Samsun. |
YEah right. When I was a kid it was verucca crazy. All over the shop. Like adders and them little sweeties that went like a braclet round your wrist. These days it's all burbery caps, ASBOS and myspace. |
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tarte tatin
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I hear you Baba, a more innocent time eh? Veruccas, marbles, the Rubicks Cube.
I remember there was always one kid in swimming lessons wearing a rubber verucca sock. Ah happy days....... |
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