always wear shower shoes

Always wear shower shoes when taking a shower in all truck stops. This is obvious and stupid but a few months ago I had a very nasty experience from not wearing them in a shower in Laredo. At the time I was making massive amounts of short runs out of Laredo so I am sure the Pilot down there is where I got it. Every now and then I will forget to put them in my pack when I shower, never had a problem I only not do it once in a while. I got some bad kind of blisters on my feet. They were huge and deep Toe to ankle. I searched all over the internet looked at thousands of gross pics and could not find anything even close to what I had.

These blisters were from toe to heal and got so big they caused massive pain. I had to pop them. Took my pocket knife torched it till it glowed cooled it down with alchohol and then popped them. They were super deep like an 1/8+ of skin to pop. Then just bright yellow thin liqued would run out everywhere. Worse thing is they spread to my hands. Then they started to segment on my feet when I popped them just creationg little walls and basically taking over my entire feet. I used everything, alchohal, peroxide, bleach lysol, athletes feet spray a few weeks of that they all of a sudden just died. The whole time I was panicked. It never spread above my ankles or wrist, but the thought was constantly in my mind about what would happen if they did spread elsewhere. My face would have been permanently mangled if they spread there, my neck would probably put me in the hospital fighting for my life, my family jewels would have definitely lost something down there, I sit on my bottom for a living, out of work if I got them on my ace. Couldnt get dispatch at the time to let me take the time off to go see a doc. just super scary.

Now every time I leave the truck because of that I go a mile out of my way to wash my hands each time I touch something use the alcohol rub hand loation every time I get in truck, wear shower shoes still use the lotramin AT ets. Just a really bad experience, wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Just please for new or old drivers take precautions about crap like that.

This is the first time I have ever had athletes foot or any other kind of rash except for chickenpox which doesnt count, but all it takes is once. Not exaggerating these were deep. Left thick mats of dead skin about as thick as floor mats on my feet, my hands which I basically fermented in alcohol rub stuff while driving, a good dose of bleach and even out of last resort lysol to get rid of were not as bad as my feet. All it takes is one time. Once in a life time is once two many. Its not worth the risk, trust me.