Nothing super bad here, but I know we have a few medical types floating about here, and I can't afford a doctor with no insurance, and especially nt for something as small as my problem.
Anyway. About three months ago, I was working in the yard, and got a blister in the inside bend of the last joint on my finger. I drained it, and it had healed to fresh, new skin under where the blister had been. (The old, dead skin had fallen/peeled off by this time.) Then I managed to cut this area when it was still tender skin, right down in the crease, on a piece of sheetmetal. (No, it was not rusty.) Anyway. The cut healed, but ever since, it won't heal completely.
The skin keeps drying out and cracking in this small area right on either side of where the cut was. It always exposes fresh, pink skin underneath when I get rid of the dried, cracked top layers, but within a couple days, this new skin also dries out and cracks away, leaving more skin. And it's getting old. If I use hydrocortisone or Neosporin or something like that with a band-aid, it seems to help, but when I stop at the recommended maximum interval, it always goes back to doing this after a couple days. Its getting annoying, as it's very tender, and hurts a bit when I put pressure on it from curling my finger, or writing.
Any advice, folks?