Thanks for the details, Owl.
So no bleeding for you, eh? I seem to have opened up a hole in my foot by my continual tweezing of the thing, which removes pieces of it but never quite the whole thing (as far as I can tell). I guess it's hard to know when it's gone... but right now it just hurts a lot, since it's basically an open sore and I've been putting acid in it.
I just want to kill it... been working on it for months (Dr. Scholl's was useless). I should be more patient, I suppose.