On Hyperkeratosis of the Sole

Well, I suppose this is pretty common?

My mum scolded me once when she saw me peeling all those thickened skin on my sole, saying that after I peeled off those skins I simply throw them on the floor, thinking it’s too small to be noticed. I mean, okay, those skins aren’t really that small pieces of erm, peeled skins, but they’re quite hardened stubborn thickened skin. My entire sole feels like the bottom part of the Timberland boots after a few weeks of leaving them skins intact.

And so, just like how I always do with the self-diagnosed eczema problem I have between the creases at the side of my nose (where I’ll scratch and peel off those shredding skin), I do the same to my sole as well.

Thing is, these thickened sole, after they’re gone, I actually feel more sensation on my feet, which, I think is better than having a senseless sole where you’d probably step onto something and injure yourself without you even knowing. You know, like those peripheral neuropathy that happened in people who was have diabetes mellitus for many years. Not quite likely, but, this cranky brain of mine thought so.

Anyways, as I sometimes would peel and peel and peel those soles and put them in a pile before I dispose them off into the bin, I discovered something interesting. My sole-skin attracts ants! These ants didn’t actually come crawling over sniffing for food and somehow got dispelled off by those smelly shredded skins from the foot. But these ants started to gather around those giant “food” and started to bite it into smaller pieces and carry them back to their nests. Interesting ay?

One man’s “waste” might be other men’s treasure. How very true. I wonder if that’s why the ants replicate faster in my house. And the new generation of ants are seriously ferocious.

Now that I’m on the matter, are the ants mutating because they fed on my sole-skin?