Well, the pus stuff has crusted over and I'm not interfering with it because I don't want to re-open the wound. It's not hot or painful but the very edges of the cut are red-rimmed. It's also itching, which I am taking as a sign of healing... so I don't know if it is infected or not. I don't want to go to the dr about it, especially since there has been an improvement in it, but it's not mending as fast I hoped it would.