Day 42 of the Red Spotted One........ Review of the Progression ...

The RED SPOTTED ONE ..... yep that's me.....

I post collections every now and then - through instagram - on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr...  of my spottiness....

Why?

It's so groooossssssss ...... 

Yeah try living with it.

I post because I need someplace to look back and remember.  I do remember when I got it as a teen, I remember it was all over my face and my face itched so bad.  I got it on my arms and I remember getting it under my boobs which left scars under them.  I don't remember how bad I broke out.  But I know it wasn't this bad.  Also, I don't remember if it was "plaque psoriasis" or if it was the "guttate psoriasis" I have now.  I do know that I get it on my elbows EVERY SINGLE YEAR ... And I might get a very very very minor break out here and there.  But it's nothing serious.

Until now.......

And I'm glad that I'm recording it and keeping track.  It started out on December 17th with this......

Some spots on my face and a couple on my neck/chest area.  The break out actually started on the 15th when I thought I was having a break out of acne... I took this picture to show my girlfriends I don't have the Snow White skin they think I do.

Then it progressed to this ........ Day 3

Just little dots on my face, chest and upper legs ....  Went into the DR and he thought I might be getting a second reassurance of Chicken Pox.... he told me to take antihistamines, treat the itching, and that I was in quarantine.

Day 4 - no blisters though ....  But now it was on my face, chest, upper legs, and my back....

Day 10 .... I managed to get it to clear up a bit on my face with steroid cream... but it was now all over my legs, and still on my chest.  And it's starting to HURT ...

So I ended up going back into the Doctors....  he basically told me it wasn't chicken pox (wasn't blistering) ...  and that it was some sort of rash LIKE the chicken pox and I needed to stay in quarantine and doing what I was doing .... he gave me a 6 day burst of steroids though.

Day 13...  all over my back, in my scalp, all over my legs but still pretty much gone on my face.

Day 16 ......  It's starting to merge onto my shoulders now .... definitely in my scalp ...  legs hurt ... back hurts .... it ... all... hurts.....  and itchy, OMGosh ...

Day 24 ....   It's starting to come back on my face now, and you can see it in my hair line.... it's wrapped around from my back to my belly and it's creeping down my arms... .

Day 29 .... the spots are growing and getting bigger, they are starting to merge together... and I'm still getting new spots ... the only places I do not have the spots are on the bottoms of my feet and the palms of my hands.

 Day 33.... just ugh....

Day 39 - the top left corner is an example of the spots merging together ....  they are still growing, still getting new ones....

Day 40.. the other night I was hurting bad behind my ears ... so I took some pictures so I could see and I found out it was WAY worse on my face and sides of my face and neck and all that.... I was actually shocked... :(

Day 41 (yesterday) ....

It's come down to the fact that I am totally connecting the dots and making pictures with my spots.  Like you do when you are traveling and there are nice fluffy clouds in the sky ....

I have a hard time sleeping.  The house gets quiet and it's just me and the cat watching Celebrity Big Brother... while I fight the itching and try to ignore the awful stinging skin and pain ....

 Today ....  I took a bunch of different pictures.....   Oye... just........ OYE .......

I actually kinda want to take a knife and use it to scratch my skin.  Like DB's wonderful trusty culinary school knife that I could just peel my skin off of ....

Seriously - the 5th of Feb cannot come fast enough.  It just can't.

I feel like a leper, I don't want to leave the house, DEFINITELY don't want to be seen in public, and OMG - the only place I can have my hair up off my skin is at home, if I go out in public with my hair up (which is about the only way it's comfortable) .... yeah ... scary biznits...

Oh yes, and let's address the fact that my skin feel like it has snake scales.  I have come to refer to myself as the Cheetah, the Leopard .... or just plain old snake.  I'm a snake.  Dennis said last night "you are cold" ... really I'm still running a low grade fever ... but my response?   "Of course I am, what else would you expect a snake to be?"

I don't know HOW my husband can look at me (but I'm awful glad he does.)  ...  I would probably be cheating on me right now (no I really wouldn't but ....  I think I'm gross!) ....

"OMG have you seen my wife?"
"I have to SLEEP with that! HELP!"

Oh and he is so cute.  "Honey, I swear they are getting better!"  HA HA HA HA HA HA ...

I feel like a dog with fleas.  Constantly itching and then wanting to cry from the pain that follows.

They say that ..... if it's covering 10% of your body, it's severe.  Well..... what the hell do you call this?  What is worse than severe?