A couple of days ago I picked at my cuticle. I woke up with a swollen thumb. This had happened once before and I had squeezed the pus out and it went away. So I did that this time and some pus came out. Good to go right? Nope. I wake in the middle of the night and my thumb is hurting and swollen. I went back to sleep and in the morning took and aspirin to get the swelling down, clean the wound really good, iced it. It doesn't seem to be better except that it doesn't hurt as much but I bet that's the aspirin working. I don't want to let this go on for too long. My dad is a doctor so he could drain it, but I really hate needles and we wouldn't have any numbing so I would like to avoid it. Any suggestions?