Sleep With the Fishes
While I was at Jim ( gym ) last night, ( yes, Jim and I did make up ) the talk on the elliptical machines amongst the women turned to shoes. Oh, how I love shoes. I moan and groan over the mere thought of a good shoe sale. Doing Jim is a lot like buying shoes, both have been known to hurt so good.
Along with the shoe talk came the mention of two names. Manny and Paddy. ( No, these are not my Portuguese and Irish boyfriends). A Manny is a manicure, and a Paddy is a pedicure. My friend Suzanne Sugarbaker began to tell us all about a wonderful gift certificate that her sister Sin (Cynthia ) had bestowed upon her for a pedicure. This was to be no ordinary pedicure.
The pedicure that Suzanne was about to go have is one of the latest beauty fads making it's way across the nation. Judging by the weirdness of this beauty procedure it probably began in Hollyweird, California . Let me ask you one question. How much money would you pay to stick your feet into a tank of fish that feed off human flesh?
Yes, that's right flesh eating fish. I am not talking piranhas, but a fish known by the name Garra rufa . The Garra rufa fish is silvery and about a inch long kind of looks like a minnow or a small goldfish.. These fish come from a hot springs in Turkey. They have a appetite for --- human flesh. They have no teeth but kiss off dead scaly skin. It is said that when people stick their feet in the tank they end up laughing so hard that they cry. I am going to accompany Ms. Sugarbaker to her beauty treatment, and I think I just might be the only one laughing, besides the guy taking her money.
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Hmmm, fodder for the fishes.
I can see where allowing the fish to debride your feet would be better, since they would only get the dead dermis (hopefully), and could be much more thorough without risking debriding live skin (which would hurt). Fly maggots have been used to remove dead skin from wounds, especially diabetic sores that won't heal ... they don't eat anything except the dead stuff. I decided I would have to be really, really high on something to have maggots crawling around in a wound (or really, really desperate). These are special maggots who were raised in antiseptic cases (so not to give you an infection). I wonder if the fish are somehow likewise cleansed of bacteria? I also wonder about sticking my feet into the same water that other people have used ... pedicures are a well-known way to acquire toenail fungus...
Icky
Thanks for letting me know I am not the only one. :)