I Only Come Out At Night

I’ve had this rash that has recent­ly become a full body thing; it itch­es like a cayenne por­cu­pine. Mir­a­cle of mir­a­cles, I man­aged to get not one, but two doc­tor’s appoint­ments today; one with my pri­ma­ry care physi­cian and one with a der­ma­tol­o­gist. I was pleased to dis­cov­er that every lifestyle ques­tion they asked about was answered in the healthy direc­tion, but what I was­n’t so pleased about was the diag­no­sis. I’m aller­gic to sun­light. Poly­mor­phus Light Erup­tion, to be exact. I end­ed up get­ting a cor­ti­sone shot over the week­end to reduce my scratch-mad­ness, and today I got dumped on with 4 pre­scrip­tions, two steroids and two aller­gy pills. I’m sup­posed to wear 30 SPF sun­screen all the time now, too. Boy in the moth­er­fuck­ing bub­ble. Thank­ful­ly my Coun­ty health care kicked in at the begin­ning of the month, oth­er­wise I’d be up itch creek with­out a backscratch­er. The days are much too bright.

5 thoughts on “I Only Come Out At Night”

  1. Yet anoth­er rea­son to rejoice your deci­sion to stay in most­ly cloudy Cleve­land. If you had moved some­where imprac­ti­cal­ly sun­ny, you would have dis­cov­ered this sun­light intol­er­ance MUCH soon­er. So sor­ry you’re itchin’, though.

  2. I kind of want to blame this ON Cleve­land. If I was some­place sun­nier, my skin would have like­ly not missed the sun long enough to become sen­si­tive.

    I just filled all my pre­scrip­tions and I’m itch­ing to try them.

  4. It might have come about because now I’m exposed to UV rays all day. The unex­pect­ed per­ils of hav­ing an office with a win­dow and a view of the lake. [If you look around the project/tenement, that is].

  5. first off, that is a won­der­ful and under­rat­ed song. and sec­ond­ly, that sucks. you might as well tape up the cen­ter of your glass­es and hike your pants up to your nip­ples now. the nerd trans­for­ma­tion is com­plete.

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