It was really more annoying than anything else. There probably wasn't anything anyone could've done that I wasn't able to do for myself, and I certainly could've stopped someone and asked for help if it was really necessary. It just would've felt nice for someone to acknowledge it, y'know? Any one of those people probably would've expected that much if it had been them in my shoes.

Anyhoo... The dr in the er apparently used plain water in a syringe to clean it out (well, fancy hospital bottled water, which certainly might've been saline). When I was trying to clean it up on the trail, I used wetnaps that I'd nicked from various restaurants over the years. Now I need to go out for bbq so I can refill my kit