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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
I went to school with a girl with chronic asthma and eczema.
She had skin like a crocodile. That's an awful thing to say, but it's how I saw it. And that was her normal state, not a flare-up, I guess from what her skin had been through in the past.
The girls in our year were kept behind for a special assembly because girls did not want to partner her in Games, in case they caught something when they touched.
It made me feel awful, even though I had never reacted that way to her. Our only real contact at that point was when we tried out for netball and she made the team (I didn't).
Fast forward four years and we were being handed our GCSE Drama practicals.
All I could think was "Please don't let me be paired/ be on the same team as her!"
Nothing to do with her skin, and she was quite a cool chick in many ways. But she was a lousy actress.
Sorry it's so very bad.
I think my worst experience ever was when I had hives from a still unspecified food allergy. The palms of my hands were the worst. One week of it drove me batshit, and that comes nowhere near close to what you live with.
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lol. I was the subject of at least one such mini-assembly :p After a particularly bad few months when I was ostracised completely. Nobody would pair with me in sports, allow me onto their teams, or even allow me to sit next to them in class.
That girl's crocodile skin was probably due to the constant need for corticosteroids. I still have a little of that around my hands, but nowhere near as bad as when I was a kid. They used to say mine looked like a lizard.
None of this is as bad as when I was a kid. That's probably why I am so impatient with a bad flare-up these days. Just not as used to it. This is bad now, but that was near to my baseline for most of childhood and early teens.
Thank FSM I only have to put up with the really nasty shit for a few days or weeks at a time now.