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Mostly, life is good. However, I have a few small objections to it just now.
The big one: today was another set of allergy shots. Two of them burned after they went in, not a normal reaction (for me, anyway). The woman giving me the shots was not at all concerned, so this is either rare-but-okay or I'm just lucky it doesn't happen more often. I was not amused. The burn lasted for the whole 20 minutes sit on one of them; that one was still feeling the burn whenever I let the arm hang limp - it apparently pulled on the muscle just wrong to do that. So I didn't do that much.
That's stopped now - it stopped quite a while back, actually - but both the ones that burned developed lumps (one nickel-sized, one larger than a half-dollar - yes, the one that kept burning was the big one). They did not suggest I ice it or take extra antihistamine unless it got worse, though, which it didn't - not from that stage. It's actually settled down a bit now but is still a bit tender.
And, not nearly as bad but still nuisancy, with fall has come "Laura's skin dries out like it was in a fire". Only, you know, without the third degree burns at least. Unfortunately, I didn't notice (as usual) until the skin on the back of my hands at the base of the fingers started cracking.
I'm now applying lotion wherever appropriate, fairly often. Alas, 'wherever appropriate' does not include the areas that cracked - I have yet to find any lotion worth having, that doesn't burn like I was sticking the skin in the fire, when applied to cracked skin. Gee, I wonder why. Grumble.
Got the car's oil changed. There's an exciting errand. But less painful than the allergy shots.
The big one: today was another set of allergy shots. Two of them burned after they went in, not a normal reaction (for me, anyway). The woman giving me the shots was not at all concerned, so this is either rare-but-okay or I'm just lucky it doesn't happen more often. I was not amused. The burn lasted for the whole 20 minutes sit on one of them; that one was still feeling the burn whenever I let the arm hang limp - it apparently pulled on the muscle just wrong to do that. So I didn't do that much.
That's stopped now - it stopped quite a while back, actually - but both the ones that burned developed lumps (one nickel-sized, one larger than a half-dollar - yes, the one that kept burning was the big one). They did not suggest I ice it or take extra antihistamine unless it got worse, though, which it didn't - not from that stage. It's actually settled down a bit now but is still a bit tender.
And, not nearly as bad but still nuisancy, with fall has come "Laura's skin dries out like it was in a fire". Only, you know, without the third degree burns at least. Unfortunately, I didn't notice (as usual) until the skin on the back of my hands at the base of the fingers started cracking.
I'm now applying lotion wherever appropriate, fairly often. Alas, 'wherever appropriate' does not include the areas that cracked - I have yet to find any lotion worth having, that doesn't burn like I was sticking the skin in the fire, when applied to cracked skin. Gee, I wonder why. Grumble.
Got the car's oil changed. There's an exciting errand. But less painful than the allergy shots.
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And if nothing else, I'm used to the dry-and-cracking skin and it's just the dryness and it WILL go away over time if I just take care of the uncracked patches and steal a march on the rest. I'm gonna try your advice because I'd rather it went away NOW, but at least I know it's just an irritant. A fairly good irritant, but such is life. ;)