well, that was weird. and a bit scary.
yesterday on our way home from somewhere, chris wanted to stop at Walgreens, so he took Germaine in and I stayed in the car with 3 sleeping kids. I foud a wayward hair and remembered there's tweezers in our first aid kit in the drawer beneath my seat, so I dig it out and... everything's wet. I can't figure out what spilled. like 60 bandaids ruined, but all the liquid stuff still has caps screwed on tightly..
then I notice.. my skin is turning white! I thought I got somethign on me, but no, it was my skin, turning white. everywhere the mystery liquid touched. each litle ridge on my fingerprints was swelling up separately.. weird. and it was all itchy and stinging. all my fingertips.. a smudge on my arm. I was freaking out. is it killing my skin? I have no idea. I can't go get chris because of all the sleeping kids, no way to make him hurry up, no where to wash my hands...
finally when we got home I washed up good. and the white went away. I mean, it didn't wash of, but when, whatever it was, got washed off, I could watch the white regain color, lose its swelling... and at the end of it... today I still have some numbness in my thumbs. everything else is back to normal.
then I notice.. my skin is turning white! I thought I got somethign on me, but no, it was my skin, turning white. everywhere the mystery liquid touched. each litle ridge on my fingerprints was swelling up separately.. weird. and it was all itchy and stinging. all my fingertips.. a smudge on my arm. I was freaking out. is it killing my skin? I have no idea. I can't go get chris because of all the sleeping kids, no way to make him hurry up, no where to wash my hands...
finally when we got home I washed up good. and the white went away. I mean, it didn't wash of, but when, whatever it was, got washed off, I could watch the white regain color, lose its swelling... and at the end of it... today I still have some numbness in my thumbs. everything else is back to normal.