I just love a dramatic post title. Don't you?
Never has a post title been so apt in this case. At the moment my eczema is playing havok with my hands. The skin is all cracked on my fingers and it was so bad earlier in the week I caught a slight infection as well. So they become all swollen which made it difficult to type, also bending certain fingers opened up parts of the skin...
...causing the phenomenon described in the title. So I've been avoid general keboard usage whenever possible this week. Which has been a bit difficult with work seen as how it's part of my job and all. I've tried to stick to the task that don't involve typing, but i'm the only one in the office this week (my boss is on holiday), so I've had to take on what I've come to call emergency typing.
Of course this has also meant no blogging etc when I got home otherwise I'd have no fingers left. Although I wouldn't have to worry about blood stains as they would just blend in with my sofa! Thankfully the swelling has gone down now and I can flex my fingers without it turning into a scene from A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Thankfully (?) it's been a slow news week up here so you haven't missed out on much. Only one noteworthy tidbit. Last friday we took the cadets on a night time exercise on Strensall Common which is an area of land the Army use for exercises. There were 10 staff members and 60 cadets. Anyway at the end of the evening we got back to where we'd parked our cars to find that a member of staff had lost there car keys somewhere on the common. Not only that but somebody else had put there car keys in this persons car for safe (??) keeping.
Oh dear! It's 11 in the evening pitch black and the common now contained tall grass, bushes, tree's, ditches, swamps and 1 set of car keys. The common is about 3 sq. km and we had 70 people. Needle, haystack, whichever way you look at it we had no chance. I don't know how they got into the car as we had to leave before then. I suspect if we'd have enquired one of the cadets may have had the necessary "skills" to "help".
See I told you it was a slow news week. I may have somethign slightly more interesting to post about on Saturday. Depends on how things go and how... er ... open I'm feeling.
Thought provoking lyric of the day:
When it all comes crashing down,
And the prayers move in to town.
Bring your floral words,
Wrapped in selafane.
Richard Ashcroft ~ Sweet Brother Malcolm
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Have you ever seen a skin specialist for eczema? I ask because one of my friends has had bad eczema for years. He was recently referred to Hinchingbrooke hospital skin specialists and they've used a new treatment. It's the first time I've ever seen him with clear skin. The change is amazing.
Otherwise, glad to hear it's getting better and hope it continues to improve.
Good luck, son. I have an inkling of what this thing is. I sense it in me bones.
Also, what Delle said. She's smart. I can lend you some stuff next time I see you, if you want.
Yukky! Poor fingers. I hope Delle's excellent suggestion comes in useful.
Ouch - I don't get eczema, but in winter when the weather goes really cold, my skin dries out something awful, and washing my hands will dry them more, so that my knuckles crack and bleed.
I found Nivea Intensive Q10 hand lotion worked like magic, it got the skin buttery soft again and therefore it wasn't tight and dry and didn't crack open and bleed.
Oh, ouch!! You poor thing!!
Have you tried Hydrocortisone cream? It's the one thing I know works wonders on eczema.
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