Dreaming of Malpractice Suits

I'm not really the litigious type, but I'm wondering if I've got a case for malpractice with the agony I've had from getting burned at the dermatologist's office.... I am still in agony over 48 hours later. I'm supposed to go back tomorrow. Yeah right. Not bloody likely.

I did not work out today. The painful friction between clothing and skin was enough to prevent it. I also had some terrible itching today. I ended up going to the drugstore and stocking up on a ton of itch relief products. Stuff to put in the bath, stuff to spray on, stuff to slather on, etc. They gave me some very brief relief, but nothing really helped for long.

I'm trying to focus on what I'll do when this nasty pain ceases. I'm planning my next rotation. I think I've got it pretty much planned out so I'll probably post that in the next couple of days.

Dreaming of Malpractice Suits

I'm not really the litigious type, but I'm wondering if I've got a case for malpractice with the agony I've had from getting burned at the dermatologist's office.... I am still in agony over 48 hours later. I'm supposed to go back tomorrow. Yeah right. Not bloody likely.

I did not work out today. The painful friction between clothing and skin was enough to prevent it. I also had some terrible itching today. I ended up going to the drugstore and stocking up on a ton of itch relief products. Stuff to put in the bath, stuff to spray on, stuff to slather on, etc. They gave me some very brief relief, but nothing really helped for long.

I'm trying to focus on what I'll do when this nasty pain ceases. I'm planning my next rotation. I think I've got it pretty much planned out so I'll probably post that in the next couple of days.

Dreaming of Malpractice Suits

I'm not really the litigious type, but I'm wondering if I've got a case for malpractice with the agony I've had from getting burned at the dermatologist's office.... I am still in agony over 48 hours later. I'm supposed to go back tomorrow. Yeah right. Not bloody likely.

I did not work out today. The painful friction between clothing and skin was enough to prevent it. I also had some terrible itching today. I ended up going to the drugstore and stocking up on a ton of itch relief products. Stuff to put in the bath, stuff to spray on, stuff to slather on, etc. They gave me some very brief relief, but nothing really helped for long.

I'm trying to focus on what I'll do when this nasty pain ceases. I'm planning my next rotation. I think I've got it pretty much planned out so I'll probably post that in the next couple of days.

Fitness Plan for This Week

It's already Wednesday but I'm just now listing my fitness plan. Here was the plan:


I've been faithfully following until today, when due to my sunburn I stayed home rather than trying yoga class. I didn't think sticking to my yoga mat with all my burned parts would be remotely pleasant. I'm still having a lot of sunburn pain, so we'll see how I feel in the morning to determine if I do my workout as planned. I'm so tired today after not sleeping well last night (then I took cold meds to help me sleep which just wore me out all day today) that I think I might go to bed soon (it's about 9:30pm here, pretty early for me to go to bed). Night all.

Fitness Plan for This Week

It's already Wednesday but I'm just now listing my fitness plan. Here was the plan:


I've been faithfully following until today, when due to my sunburn I stayed home rather than trying yoga class. I didn't think sticking to my yoga mat with all my burned parts would be remotely pleasant. I'm still having a lot of sunburn pain, so we'll see how I feel in the morning to determine if I do my workout as planned. I'm so tired today after not sleeping well last night (then I took cold meds to help me sleep which just wore me out all day today) that I think I might go to bed soon (it's about 9:30pm here, pretty early for me to go to bed). Night all.

Fitness Plan for This Week

It's already Wednesday but I'm just now listing my fitness plan. Here was the plan:


I've been faithfully following until today, when due to my sunburn I stayed home rather than trying yoga class. I didn't think sticking to my yoga mat with all my burned parts would be remotely pleasant. I'm still having a lot of sunburn pain, so we'll see how I feel in the morning to determine if I do my workout as planned. I'm so tired today after not sleeping well last night (then I took cold meds to help me sleep which just wore me out all day today) that I think I might go to bed soon (it's about 9:30pm here, pretty early for me to go to bed). Night all.

SparkPeople and Sunburn

I joined SparkPeople yesterday to try a new way to lose weight...again. I think I looked into it briefly a few months ago but never really tried it, so this is all still pretty new. I have actually gained 5 lbs since I restarted the Body for Life eating plan. Yikes. And that's not 5 lbs of muscle, unfortunately. Ugh. So I'm kicking BFL to the curb again and going back to the old faithful counting calories, fat, etc. It's a pain in the heinie, but maybe that's the only thing I can do to really lose weight. I probably need better portion control. Ugh again.

In other news today, strangely enough I got a sunburn at my dermatologist's office. I went for light therapy for my psoriasis. It turns out what I thought was eczema is actually guttate psoriasis*--a kind of skin condition related to having strep or other infections. Lucky me. I have no idea what started it since it's been awhile since I've had strep. Anyway, the treatment involves phototherapy--which is basically getting zapped with ultraviolet light at the doc's office. This is done in the buff. So they are shining a bright light on things that have never seen the sun (and that only saw a tanning bed once or twice in college). Yowza. Poor chest and back are all burny and itchy. I had just 20 seconds last Thursday and they bumped it up to 40 seconds today. Those must have been 40 pretty intense seconds. So here I am with a sunburn. At least they had me wear goggles and a pillowcase over my head so my face is o.k. Yeah, I get to wear a pillowcase over my head and stand in a machine naked like that. Fun. I probably look like a pale and lumpy torture victim--but now I'm a red and lumpy torture victim. At least my only tan lines will be where the pillowcase hits my neck. Except I probably won't tan. I'll burn and then it will turn a slightly less pale shade of white. Oy.

OK, enough of that. I can tell it's already helped some of my psoriasis spots, so that's good.


*No, I do not have it as bad as the dude in the picture on that website I linked.