...I have this major, major cold sore system working on the right corner of my mouth. It really is prodigious. Seriously, you people are lucky that the batteries in my camera are worn out.

So noticing that I'm out of Ambesol or Campho-phenique or whatever, and being a geek, I casually hopped online to try and discover which brand works the best before going out and buying some. Here's what happened next.

1. Every reputable site I visited said that that stuff doesn't work.

2. Every reputable site I visited warned emphatically that a person with a cold sore should be EXTREMELY careful when touching their eyes or genitals, because it is easy to get ocular or genital herpes from a cold sore.

Great. Like I need this worry. I am a paranoid person to begin with, and among my many frets is the fear that I will do something like this. That I will touch my cold sore, my eyes, and my ... self, and then while the cold sore will run its course, I will be blind and will never have sex again.

Such is the mind I live in. I'm going to the pharmacy.
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