So… the weird chilblains looking rash/blister thingies I’ve had on my toes for the last month have finally basically gone.
🥳
So… what would be my surprise but in the last couple of days, my hands started to get a little sensitive, like I’d been working in the yard all day raking or shoveling or something without gloves. My hands felt like that… pre-blister feeling, that raw, but not yet bubbling condition.
By the evening, they were itching pretty good, and there were weird little subcutaneous blister thingies on the palms of my hands and the end of my fingers, and my hands were swollen.
By Sunday morning, the bottoms of my feet were itching.
More blisters.
My hands have probably hundreds of blisters now. Haven’t looked at my feet closely enough. My arms. My legs.
Oh, it itches. Just keeps getting worse. 😶 As I write this, it’s… pretty miserable. As much as I hate going to doctors and don’t believe in them a lick anymore, I went to the urgent care (mostly just because I wanted to rule out hand foot and mouth, so I knew if I needed to cancel my jobs and tell the guy who’s gonna ride with me tomorrow that he wasn’t gonna be riding with me.
So… what did the doc say? She has no clue what’s wrong with me. She said it’s not chilblains (which conclusion I’d reached myself by the time I’d gotten there with all the symptoms I had). What I didn’t know was whether it was hand foot and mouth. I didn’t think it was, but my nephew had it recently, and he was staying in my room, and what crazy coincidence would give me something with an awful itchy rash with blisters all over my hands and feet and not be HF&M?
But… she said it most likely wasn’t HF&M.
So… what the heck is it? She hasn’t a clue. Nothing new there. Doctors never have a clue.
That said… she was a wonderful person, not in a hurry, kind. That was… a breath of fresh air. Just… wish there was something more helpful. In the meantime, I itch… something fierce. But, since my goal was to figure out what to do about the coming week of work, I accomplished the goal.
I’ll be fixing cars tomorrow.🙃
But… this itch is getting crazy bad. Can only imagine how bad it would be if I didn’t have the self control to not scratch.
So… I guess I have some self discipline. 🙃
I’m tired. It’s time to go to bed.
Gosh, I hope I can sleep tonight. 😶
Hope this goes away quickly. Oh, I hope it goes away quickly. I just want to sleep until I’m better. Really hope it doesn’t get worse.
Hard to think of anything other than the itching right now, and how much I don’t want to do anything else. Might break down and take some antihistamine stuff… if I have some.
Love and hugs. 😊
Lift the World
~ stephen
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