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I get burned like nobody's business. I'm literally allergic to the sun.
Last year, I fell asleep on the beach and apparently during my sunblock coating a few vital spots like ... my ankles ... and I guess my shorts swooped down a bit as little sliver was open to the elements as well.
I was in the sun for less than an hour. An hour. This girl woke me up to inform me my entire body was red (with extra sunblock) and that we better go back to get more sunblock (since she put practically an entire bottle on me of 45).
I'm feeling good at this point, walking fine, a little kind of feeling my skin tightening but that's not bad.
A few hours later ... my feet have swelled up to the size of grapefruits. Literally. Certain pieces of my legs have been missed as well, and they are blood red.
I can't walk without excruciating pain. Lucky thing the place I was at was having a party I guess later that nite as dipped into the booze a little early to attempt to name the pain.
To attempt to walk around I have ice bags wrapped around my ankles, and no one can believe what has happend and how insane my body reacted.
I was supposed to leave the next day for New York City to see my two favourite teams play (Yankees/Pirates).
I can't move when I wake up.
I sit in Air Conditioning all day, drinking my face off - without ever thinking of going to the doctor.
The next day I hobble to my car and drive 8 hours home, and it was quite possibly the worst driving experience of my life.
I can't have shoes on, and in Baltimore traffic I had to slam on the breaks, which hurt like hell, but to top it off my phone flew off my lap onto my foot.
So there I am in bumper-to-bumper traffic at rush hour with music blaring, next to a guy in a suit looking over and tears are shooting out of my eyes like a water fountain.
I finally make it home, I have 3 days of vacation left in the week considering my NYC trip.
I can't do anything but drink and lay down with my feet elevated.
I couldn't even stand to piss because it hurt so bad to be standing for an extended period of time. I'd fall backwards and piss all over myself (luckily in the tub, haha).
I mustered up the moxy to get out of the house the one time and when I showed up to the bar to meet up with my friends, I was cut off by the bouncer from drinking anymore because I smelled like a brewery.
I showed him my legs.
He bought me 2 shots.
It was the most disgusting thing ever.
My legs were blood red, the skin that eventually came off was enough to fill a pillow and to this day I have a C-Section Scar on my stomach.
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If anyone made it thru to this point I wish this story was funny.
To be brutally honest, it was the most consistently painful thing in my entire life, and I get cluster headaches. And I'd rather have a spell of those before I ever get sunburnt that bad again.
I mean Jesus, I've been sun burnt ... bad ... like blister, upon blister bad ... 3rd degree burn bad ... but I've never had my ankles swell up like that.
NEVER FORGET TO PUT SUNBLOCK ON YOUR ANKLES!!!!