21/8/19

Another chapter on my bad skin...

So, today was supposed to be a fun day at the beach. We left at around 3pm and came back at around 6pm. So, we went there, set up our stuff and all that. My dad, my sister and I made a few bridges in the sand (they weren't collapsing and we were happy about it), something pricked my sister somehow, I did some drawing in the sand, it was pretty nice

Then I took off my dress (I was already wearing my swimming costume underneath) and went into the water with my sister. I was picking seashells from the sand, so my arms got wet. 5 minutes in, my arm began burning. My left arm, around my elbow, it was burning. I told my sister countless times "my arm is burning, it hurts." We stayed in the water for around 10 more minutes before we waddled out of the water because I couldn't stand my aching arm. I told my parents and my dad said that my bad skin was probably broken, and it could get infected. I'm going to have to use medicated skin cream. It smells bad. So I sat on the towel for almost the rest of the time, burying my feet. After sitting down for around 20 mins, we got up and went to search for more shells, because the tides were lowering (?).

I spent 5 years of my life in Mauritius. Mauritius is famous for its beaches. So, as anyone who stayed there would do, I went swimming in the sea a lot. I never got this burning problem. I went to two beaches a lot. I'd spend 2-3 hours in the sea, honestly. They were both pretty warm during the day (they got colder in the evening), one of them was clear and light blue, the other was pretty cloudy and kind of murky, and it had coral and rocks so you'd fall over and could get hurt a lot. I preferred the first, clearer one. But yeah, I spent most of my developing years (in my mind, there are certain years in a child's life where they develop the most. That's 5-11) going to the beach, and I enjoyed it.

Is my bad skin really going to begin ruining things I enjoy now? I was supposed to be lucky, I found a four leafed clover! I'm kind of sad now. I've had bad skin for so long, am I going to have bad skin all my life, and is it going to ruin everything I like? 😭