[Cancer]
[cancer] Sun sensitivity
Yesterday we went out looking at Vaux’s Swifts. Which was a lot of fun.
Thanks to my friends Vectibix and Doxycycline, I now have very sensitive skin. I am especially sensitive to sunlight.
After just a week, the skin on my face is tight, brittle, tender and inflamed. I have a spray of acne on my chest and upper back as well. I use hypoallergenic lotion on my skin, as well as 1% Hydrocortisone cream. I go out with heavy sunscreen on my face, neck and hands. I wear a hat, long pants and long sleeves. I should be wearing a hood and possibly a scarf or kerchief.
I am beginning to flinch at any sunlight. My face hurt last night, just from the car ride to the swifts. I feel like a freaking vampire.
And this is only the beginning. By next spring, my skin ought to be a real party.
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My brother-in-law has crohn’s disease (the colon disease) and a bunch of other problems as a result of the crohn’s. One of the meds has made him extremely sun-sensitive for 30+ years. He goes out completely covered, including gloves for his hands.
He has what I think of as a beekeeper’s hat – netting is attached to the hat brim, goes completely around his face and back, covering his neck etc in the back, and hangs about halfway down his chest/back. It’s pretty dense, but not so dense that he can’t see out of it. And sometimes he even uses an umbrella.