Monday Night
10:30 pm - Geez my elbow is itching like crazy!!
11:45 pm - Geez my knee also itches like crazy!!
11:50 pm - Inspect why I'm so itchy. Turns out I have giant welts on both my elbow & my knee! What the heck?? Have a bit of a freak out & inspect in better lighting. Umm... I appear to have been attacked by something horrendous.
11:55 pm - Attempt to overpower this rash with some Cortizon 10.
Tuesday Morning
12:15 am - Nothing's happened. Oh wait, yes, it's starting to spread. Stupid Cortizon 10.12:20 am - Put socks on my hands in order to prevent scratching. Ha. Like that actually ever works!
2:30 am - After trying to sleep for the last 2 hours (which didn't actually happen. more like tossing & turning for 2 hours!) I finally pull out my trusty Sidekick (haha... I've always wanted to say that!) and research what it could possibly be. First thought, one of the poison plant families. I was playing with my dogs earlier, who had been on their daily walk just shortly before I decided to pet them all for 20 minutes. Or I could have come in contact with something else during the day that my skin apparently doesn't agree with. During this research effort I start to inspect my wonderful new skin additions and discover it's spread to the other elbow & other knee!! I then watch as a patch on my right elbow increases before my eyes... uh... scary.
2:40 am - Have decided on trying a home remedy, cause well, I don't want to drive to the store at 3 o'clock in the morning. First, I take an extremely hot bath. I think it helps because it dries your skin out. Then they say banana helps relieve itching. So I proceed upstairs to smash some bananas and apply it to my appendeges and cover it with saran wrap. Oh my goodness. I reek of banana.
Bananananana
3:00 am - Back to bed with me. Good thing I sound like a giant plastic bag walking around. And smell like bananas.8:00 am - Wake up. Still smell like bananas. Rash has proceeded to spread to cover both arms entirely. Awesome.
8:05 am - Back to the drawing board. Next step: my wonderful father goes to the store and buys me every itch-curing chemical he can find because my arms look like the surface of Mars. Meanwhile, I proceed to cover my knees in oatmeal (another home remedy) and saran wrap. Me and saran wrap have become very good friends at this point. Now I smell like bananas and oatmeal. Father returns with Benadryl ointment. This turns out to be my life saver. Rash disappears in about an hour.
My life-saver.
Ummm.... talk about strange. Oh, and after doing all my laundry, including my entire bed set, I woke up this morning with a rerun (though not nearly as bad) of the other night. Stupid stupid flesh eating skin disease!! I know you're very happy to have been informed of this incident. Next subject.
I've discovered a new favorite artist. Justin Nozuka. He sounds like melted butter. Mmm...
And last, but most definitely not least...
I was given the incredible privledge of seeing a special premiere of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian last night!! (Thanks Disney, Walden Media & Grace Hill Media) It was brilliant, spectacular, amazing!!! I could go on, but I just wanted to put the plug in for everyone to see it!! It's been a long time since Disney actually made me laugh, cry & sit at the edge of my seat (even though I knew the story line from having read the books...) all in the same movie. Just brilliant. Go see it this Friday when it comes out!!
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