Apologies for the blogging break, but there’s just not been anything worth writing about.

Lets see… What’s been going on…

Well, I still have the neck of a lizard, only now I seem to be part lobster, part lizard and part panda, as you can see from the photos below…

Oh and I also have the bowel of a pregnant woman…

So a quick recap would make sense I guess…

A strange rash appeared on my neck some months ago, then it started to appear in more places around my neck.

The doctor thought it was an infection and gave me antibiotics, which I was reluctant to take, since I have had reactions to every tablet I’ve had since developing the Chronic Fatigue.

A few days later I started them, but only because the rash started to appear around my eyes.  They didn’t work, so he put me on a different one, which I foolishly agreed to take.

Two tablets later I’ve got a rash all over my upper body, a swollen tongue and so much diarrhoea that I’m running to the bathroom every 20 minutes for the next three days, and every two hours for the next three nights.

After that, I settled down to a pattern of diarrhoea every two hours during the day and every 4 during the night for the next two and a half weeks.  After that it was like having the bowel of a pregnant woman.

A charming subject I know, but the volume of matter coming out of me seemed to far exceed the volume of matter I was consuming, so how I’m not down to that fabled size zero, I’ll never know!:???:

So, we’re now about 6 weeks after the antibiotic incident, my stomach is pretty much back to normal, if you can ignore the churning and gurgling it’s doing most of the time.

My skin on the other hand, well that’s another matter entirely.

Before the antibiotics it was just small clusters of wound red patches in three places on my neck, a small patch on each cheek bone and a couple of tiny patches around each eye…

After the antibiotics it just went on the rampage, and now look at it…

Oh, ignore the terrible hair, I’d just come out of the shower when I took these…

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As you can see, all in all, it looks quite a mess.  Nothing is shifting it, nobody really seems to know what it even is.

The doctors think it’s a Staph’s infection, various people think it’s psoriasis or eczema, and given the way it flared up after the antibiotics wiped out my immune system, I tend to think the same as I did in the first place, that it’s a particularly nasty virus.

All I know for sure is, it’s still spreading, at this rate I’m going to have no face left, and certain parts of it are itching like crazy, while other parts are fine.  It flakes wildly overnight when I can’t put cream on it, so I wake up with a pile of scales in the bed with me, and I’m going through a tub of moisturiser a week trying to stop it drying out and splitting.

So… Who wants to pay to have me put down and put out of my misery?

All donations happily accepted:grin: