These Hands

Well it is official: I am scared. What began as a small itchy rash in early June is now all over my hands, my right wrist, both of my feet, and on my ankles. I have had a total of three doctor appointments, two of them to a family practice and one of them to a dermatologist. It was initially deemed to be contact dermatitis and then was called atopic eczema. I have been on two separate steroids (yay now I can be like half of Major League Baseball!) and I changed my lifestyle to fit the needs described to me to treat it. Nothing is working. The eczema is spreading and it appears I now have an infection on one of the fingers. It all began with these hands. I admit it…as a grown man, I am getting scared. This is supposed to be a happy time with a wedding coming in five weeks. Okay...I'm done venting now.