Month SEVEN

There is so much more to this journey than finds it way to this page, hopefully soon. For now this continues to be a time of distress with itch, burn, pain and swelling, many sleepless nights, tired days and it goes on. Life goes on as well, barely it seems to creep along, it is a time for healing. Healing? Yes along with all the discomfort there is a measure of healing, the intensity is less when I stop to think, the areas not as large.

It is hard to realize that when the pain is so unbelievably intense. There have even been times I've looked at my hands and wondered, my word, HOW can you feel so much pain radiating with heat but not the fire of a few months back.

I should be fast asleep, my body needs the rest for healing but the itch has kept me awake, the thickness of the skin on my face has returned with red like a burn. WHERE does this come from? My thumb is the worst now and so slow to heal, one day it will but for now it's a tease. One day I awake and it seems to have improved but then I see this really is not the case.

Compression gloves have been helpful but can not wear them on my face. Some days I use fresh aloe vera to cool my skin, on nights like last a bag of ice for my hands through the night. Oh and somehow after all these months there was a leak of icy water in the night around my pillows, though I was too tired to fully care.

      It is difficult of course to see from photos but the pain in hands is nearly indescribable 02-16-15