This blog is to help others contemplating this treatment.
Days 24-25 - Days 4-5 on the Healing Phase
It doesn't seem to be progressing very quickly to me. It's hurting more, if you can believe that! I'm slathering on moisturizer but the big problem is at night when I wake up and the cream seems to have been absorbed into the top pillowcase. This leaves raw, dry skin, radiating heat and hurting to the point that you can't sleep and have to get up to put cream on. It feels like your face has just come out of a toaster.
The past two nights have been stages of two hours of sleep - get up - reapply. I thought that perhaps dampening the pillowcase might stop the leaching away of the cream. Well the induced, evaporative coolness of the cotton, by the water, certainly helped with the 'sunburn' effect as anyone who has had sunburn will know the comfort of a cool compress to the affected area. So, TICK, good result. However, the cream/moisture still leached away leaving skin that is dry to the point of what feels like brittle. I've never experienced dry skin at this level before. I'm taking 4500mg (3 tablets) of fish oil a day also - to help keep the available body oils high to help with the dry skin (from the inside!).
Broken sleep for two days now has my senses and resilience rattling like marbles in glass jar.
Broken sleep for two days now has my senses and resilience rattling like marbles in glass jar.
They said it would be a challenge.
Photos: today - Day 25 with comparisons to Day 23 for distance travelled in 48 hours.
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Day 23
Day 25
Learning:
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still
Chinese Proverb
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