Home / Answered Questions / Hello there, i’m so worried if i’m infected now. Yesterday I went to “STI and skin specialist doctor” to check my face pimple. There were many patients waiting. The doctor office looks very old and dirty, but it also provides medical check-up laboratory for patients. Some patients’ hands were bleeding and holding cotton balls because the lab takes their blood by ancient way, I couldn’t see how, but the patients just came out from the lab holding and pressing a big cotton ball by their fingers which are certainly where the blood was drawn from. I saw the orange colour (blood) clearly from a female patient’s cotton ball. She played and kept wiping her finger using that cotton ball. 1 minute later, she walked passing in front of me very closely to me and the big cotton still followed her hand, which was the closest hand to my front. I have a bleeding open wound on my foot close to my toes, and her bleeding-and-holding-cotton hand passed on my foot when she walked. I was shocked thinking that her blood would drip on my foot open wound. Again, this doctor is a STI specialist and a skin specialist too, which means that his patients must have STI problems then got blood tests. This female patient looked like a prostitute by her appearance and she smoked cigarettes. What if she is an HIV+ and STI+, then her blood from her hand and her bloody cotton dripped into my open wound? I’m so frustrated since this doctor handles a lot STI patients too. What do you think about my risk? Am I infected by HIV and STI? Is there any STI or HIV check i should take? What type of STI are commonly taken for testing? Do you think a blood dripping on exfoliating foot toes with no open wound can transmit STI or HIV? Please help me assess my case, thank you.