Spent my days off in a medicated haze, fiddling about with Facebook and Twitter and Plurk. Am now awake, aware, and aching again, and thoroughly fed up with things popping up on the screen at me. Bah!
My jaw and/or neck need to pop. It's the congestion, I know, not any actual joint quirkiness, but dammit, it hurts and it's got me flustered.
Eczema (etc.) Balm is no good for dermatitis. Well, wait--it's good for the facial stuff, near my nose and lips and eyebrows. But if I apply it anywhere near the hairline, it makes the scaling
far worse than it would ordinarily be without
any treatment,
and it brings on a spate o' dandruff to boot. I was not entirely surprised by the latter--a couple of the ingredients are love/hate on the dandruff--but the sudden alligator scaling I could have done without.
The upside was my hands. The weather here went very cold, and my job had me in the damp right before going out into the cold, and then it was cold
and wet outside, and I have a little hand-washing problem, and suddenly, my hands look like I've been doing hard labor for sixty years. Tree bark texture! But rubbing in the excess after applying the balm to my face instantly brought on a lasting smooth that lotion couldn't touch. Neat!
I was so impressed, I decided to try them on my feet, which take on a goat's hoof-like quality when cold weather rolls around. Scratching against the bedsheets roughness, I tell you--it used to drive me nuts at night. (I have tactile issues. Let's not go into it.) I salved 'em and socked 'em, and the next morning my feet were touchably soft. It's been a week or two, and even having fallen off when I was sick and distracted, they're still nice and human. Callouses are softer too, and scruffed of dead skin. Weird, but neat!
I decided I had to try this on an extreme case, so I handed a jar to...
my mother.No,
you think you know, but you don't.
And after she tried it for a few days, she could go barefoot without scaring small children anymore. Amazing!
I'm still holding out hope for it on the eczema/psoriasis count, but still, at least it's not a total waste.
