[Dwyn]

I cut myself a bit on my arm, more absently than anything. It wasn't deep enough to bleed, but I'm pretty sure it's infected. :/

It's red around the edges and swollen. I don't THINK there's any pus, or fluid leaking out of it. Sometimes it has a yellowish scab, and under water it looks like it has a white-ish scab, but mostly it looks kinda open and un-scabbed.

I've been soaking it in warm soapy water twice a day and putting neosporin and band-aids on it. The issue is, I can't go to the doctor because I can't tell my mom. She would DIE if she knew her daughter self-harmed. I was going to tell her about it today, when she started talking about one of my friends whom she knew self-harmed, and how any good mother would disown their child and send them to a mental institution if they did!

I really don't know what to do. Is there anything else I should be doing? What I'm doing seems to have made it slightly less red, but it's pretty much been this way for the whole three or four days I've had it...