Allergy Testing

So, anyone remember the potato chip incident last October? This saga is never gonna end.

I may have mentioned this before. I can't remember. I finally broke down and went to a dermatologist in OKC because the swollen cracking hands thing has gotten way old! They've decided it's "contact dermititis" and I'm allergic to something I'm in contact with regularly. Many things have gone through my mind about all this. "Yikes!" might be the one that keeps screaming in my head. Next Monday the doc will put a patch on my back that has allergens inside that will help determine the problem. I wear this patch for 2 days, go back Wednesday, and they check it. I then go back again Friday for the end result, I think. It's crazy!

I realize there are much more important things in life than my little hand issue. But I'm just gonna tell you that it's been a long miserable 6 months. I've just felt some relief in the last couple weeks since they prescribed this special ointment to put on twice a day. If it was on my shins, knees, I don't know, some other place maybe I could take it. But the hands are so much in the middle of one's life.

And then I think about all the people who don't have one or both hands and it breaks my heart!

So, no more whining! We're gonna find the problem and fix it. Or we won't and I'll just go on and think of the poor people would give a million bucks for a swollen itchy hand!