I finally mustered up the courage to get all the flat warts on my face burned off with a laser.

For the past few years, I've had small, bumpy, acne-like bumps around my eyes and temples that wouldn't pop and just kept spreading. I later found out they were contagious flat warts, so I scheduled a weekend visit to a dermatologist to have them all removed from my face. Even though I applied a generous amount of numbing cream and waited for over thirty minutes, it was quite painful and difficult when the laser actually burned them away; there was a burning smell and a stinging sensation. I think I had over a hundred removed, and now I have dozens of small pieces of regenerative tape stuck all over my face, making me feel like I'm going to develop trypophobia. It will be inconvenient for a while since I can't wash my face properly or wear makeup, but I'm gritting my teeth and enduring it, thinking only of how smooth my skin will be once the tape falls off in a week.