Cold and windy out there today, 10C but with the wind and the damp it feels so much colder than that.
Attila took the opportunity to harvest his horseradish today. All it took was a shovel and bucket and a little bit of time. He is peeling it as I write, my eyes can feel it, and I am sitting in the other room. It will be processed in a blender, out on the back porch, then prepared and frozen in small batches.
I’ve been up to little things, like slicing bread, and making another batch of Kombucha.
I recently had a biopsy taken. It left a sizable hole in my skin, which is healing very nicely. However, I have developed a very irritating reaction to bandages, the glue in them I believe. When we travelled to Toronto I put a bandage over the biopsy wound, knowing I would be using public restrooms. Sure enough, the whole area is red and swollen and so so itchy. The bandage was on my skin from 7:00 a.m. until 5 p.m., which it seems is enough time to cause the reaction. The wound is fine, the contact dermatitis will linger for weeks.
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6°C
Date: 5:00 PM EDT Tuesday 15 April 2025
Condition: Mostly Cloudy
Pressure: 99.7 kPa
Tendency: Rising
Temperature: 5.9°C
Dew point: 4.1°C
Humidity: 88%
Wind:WSW 20 gusts 41 km/h
Visibility: 19 km
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“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
Mark Twain
1835 – 1910
Maggie, welcome to the world of paper tape users. Those adhesive reactions can be miserable. I just hope you don’t blister.
Wendy, thank you! I’d not heard of paper tape, it is now on my shopping list! And gauze too, unless there is another product I don’t know anything about that works better. It is interesting that the GP said nothing about alternative products I could use, I will make sure to tell him all about what works!
My adhesive reactions are horrible, I’ve have to have so many scans and stuff like that, and afterwards I am covered in itchy welts that take weeks to heal. I get this reaction even from the cables on the heart monitor that are laid across my chest, big lines of welts. This is new for me, not sure if it is all the medications I am taking, or just old age. I am so glad to hear of an alternative!
Maggie, if it’s easier to have a regular bandage, another trick is to put down the paper tape first and then have the bandage stick to the paper tape. It doesn’t always work but is worth a try.
I don’t think I’m as sensitive as you are, but I’ve lost skin to those EKG sticky things. Gotta have some kind of neutral cream to take them off.
Maggie, while in my bathroom just now, I saw the other thing in my arsenal for those times when paper tape is not enough. I’ve had decent results with silicone tape, sometimes called scar tape.