In which I complain, and confess to having a mysterious rash. (No, no no no, not THERE. Christ, what’s wrong with you?)
The plastic zipper on my down-filled vest sucks. It catches on nothing and it always takes me multiple tries to get it unzipped. If the vest wasn’t so warm I wouldn’t put up with this shit.
It’s cold outside. I don’t dig it. If it were summer, I wouldn’t have to wear down vests in the first place, I’d be wearing a tank and a skirt and my Birks and it would be fantastic.
In other news, I have a weird rash on my palms. Both of them. It’s a bunch of tiny little subcutaneous blister-like dots. I have no idea what it is – I’ve never seen anything like this anywhere on my body. It started several days ago as an itchy patch at the base of my right thumb, then it went away, and yesterday afternoon it came back all over both palms and up my right pinkie finger. The sensation is a combination of burning tightness and itchiness.
As I’ve always got minor abrasions on my hands in the winter from handling firewood, I’m assuming it’s some relative of the ringworm/jock itch/athlete’s foot fungus, and that Lamasil or something similar will remove it… except I’ve had ringworm, and this isn’t ring-shaped. Then again, maybe I have lupus. Or herpes. Or Rocky Mountain spotted fever!
Or maybe I’m just dehydrated and a little bit toxic.
Update: Well, now it’s November 2008 and I see that this page gets a lot of hits. My rash went away by itself. I now believe it was the result of toxicity; I was under a lot of stress at the time and I’d been doing non-OTC drugs regularly.
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I cant stand freezing winters anymore!
Water and lots of lemon takes care of all that kind of shit.
You know my doctor always tells me it’s important to minimize the skin discomfort on the first day or the second in order not to let it be some weird scratch or stain or whatever… So I’d suggest you to go see a doctor. I mean we all want to be pretty. And skincare is the most important task in my life. Take care!
Wack off some of your ass and glue it to your hand. Problem solved.
You’re welcome.
I vote for Summer. It would be fantastic.
1 – Thank you for acting on my emailed advice.
2 – DOH! Of course, why the hell else would I want to marry a girl!
You’re toxic, baby. Way toxic. That’s gotta be it. Oh… and try a Benedryl, eh? Good luck.
As for cold: it’s frikkin’ *snowing* here right now. Albeit in a lite pansy-ass kinda way…
ok, you got some weird ass advice in these comments. have you tried urinating on your hand?
itchy hands suck, let us know what it is/was if you figure it out and if you have health insurance shigeki is right, plus the docs can usually give you better stuff than OTC.
Um… Mook, hun… get it checked.. Scabies starts on the hands or feet and comes and goes as the mites die and are reborn.
Scabies??!??!??!?!!
Re: crappy zipper. If you know your way around a sewing machine, you could replace the zipper with velcro. Or, even a new zipper. Just a thought…
You should have that checked. It could possibly be shingles, which is a form of the chicken pox virus. Can be nasty on your nerves if you don’t get it taken care of.
Update: IT WENT AWAY ALL ON ITS OWN, people. No scabies, no peeing, nothing. Isn’t the body wonderful? 😉
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