Eczema is fun

Fun facts about the eczema on Tim's hands as of now:

(for simplicity, in this post, thumbs = fingers)

• 7/10 fingers are affected with eczema (on 6 of them, eczema covers the entire finger)
• 3/5 fingers on one hand do not have proper fingerprints (just a smooth, callously feel to it)
• 5/10 fingers have very painful cuts on them (they burn), and they bleed if I bend my fingers too far
• 1 hand can not make a full fist. Well, technically, I could if I wanted to, but then it would just cause the existing cuts on my fingers to widen, deepen, and bleed messily
• on the same hand, I can feel my skin tighten when I try to make a fist because of fat finger folds caused by my past use of cortisone (steroid cream) which I theorize has caused my finger mass to increase (my eczema affected fingers are semi-pudgy looking)
• sometimes I wake up with skin missing from my hands/fingers because I scratch them in my sleep. I painfully pay for my unconscious behavior when I'm awake (it stings... a lot).
• the eczema on my hands has never been this worse before

Prior to going to SFU, I'd never met anyone with eczema before. Now, I've met a lot of people who have eczema. It kind of makes me feel better that I'm not the only one who suffers like this. Actually, this isn't really suffering. That is poor misuse of the word. Dede the "tree man" is real suffering (google him at your own risk; it may be too disturbing for some people).

Imma shut up now...

PS- if there's an interest, someday I'll post picture of my eczema hands, they're fascinating! And I endure for God, my only hope!