So last week I went running with what I THINK was a bad pair of socks, although I'm not sure. I developed a BAD blister, a huge one, right on the ball of my foot. It was bigger than two quarters in size. I tried to drain it but it didn't drain well and then the skin tore on it. I clipped the skin off, which typically has worked well, and used moleskin, bandaids and athletic tape to secure a sterile covering with extra cushioning over it. I let it be exposed to air at night, which typically works, and it was healing just fine.
So today I covered the big blister and went for a run. I felt fine through the run up until the last 5-7 minutes and even then, it only bothered me a bit. When I got home and took off the covering, it peeled off another 2 layers of skin (stuck to the padding) of what had been a second deeper blister underneath the healing first one.
This one HURTS even worse!! I've covered it all day but I've had to be on my feet most of the day. I've limped around the best I could do but it HURTS to even stand on it because it's right on the ball of my foot.
All the advice I find online says to let the blister stay covered by skin and let it heal. But the skin is off and it's raw down to nearly the blood. So now what do I do? Obviously I won't be running tomorrow but I will be on my feet a lot. Any ideas?