Well, I've done it again. Went and slathered myself with an allergen. Yup, I'm an idiot. Fortunately, it was just my face. And my neck. D'oh!
I was trying to rid myself of some bumps around my jaw line. Yes, I'm sure everyone will just think I had zits and am trying to call them something else, but really, at 50, I'm not getting lots of pimples. I am, however, getting lots of stupid skin reactions, and I get these little bumps on my face that never seem to go away and if I mess with them (because how can you effin NOT?), I create a scratched-open red bump. I wanted to make them go away. And I had a giant aloe leaf laying around doing nothing after the yard guys accidentally knocked it off.
Genius that I am, and knowing that I've gotten itchy and bumpy and several other dwarfs from aloe in the past, I harvested the aloe. (I'll have to post how to do that someday, because it's quite easy and aloe is NORMALLY quite good for healing the skin and wounds and rashes. But that's for normal people I guess.) And then, being the slow learner that I am, I put this aloe mixed with a little witch hazel all over my jaw line and most of the rest of my face. Several times. And when I didn't see an immediate crazy reaction, I did it some more.
That was over the weekend on Saturday and Sunday. By Monday morning I had the crazy bad reaction that I had looked for on contact. My delayed reaction was a sea of little bumps, some itchy, most not, covering the regions in question. Sigh. Live and frickin never learn.
It will all go away in a week or two. Meanwhile I'm trying to hide in the house as much as possible. Lining up some Halloween movies, like Tucker & Dale Versus Evil.
