Mrs. D.

The day Alan listens to anything I say, well, give me a million dollars. He was fine immediately after this "spell" happened. He came home, ate like a champ, no problems, nothing.

Just now, I told him "the guys on the boards say you have to re-hyrdrate and drink and eat sensibly". Then he says 'well, I cheated yesterday". I said 'you did what???" You can't cheat, you have menieres and a history of vertigo (which, truthfully he hasn't had an episode in over 3 years, but still.....)

Anyway, I said "what did you cheat, what did you eat"?.

Get this. He's at the seminar and he says "well, I had a cookie, a brownie, and a coffee roll" oh, a diet coke too." I just looked at him. The sugar content alone (thank god he's not a diabetic), but really!!

All this (maybe not the coke), but all this has sodium). He's not supposed to have sodium. Because practically everything you buy outside of your house IS LOADED WITH SODIUM, I can only imagine what was in the cookie and the brownie and the other thing he at.

And forget about him telling his doctor. I thought he was going to the doctor today to pick up his plavix. No, he's going to the pharmacy to get it filled.

He looked fine, he said he feels fine (except his psoriasis (ever since he had the ivig last week), well, it's BAD!!!! He has terrible dry skin. I'm always brushing off his clothes. It's like his skin cells are on overdrive.

Before i went to the couch and there were all these flakes all over the couch. I told him. "you better start putting lotion or baby oil on your body". I tried giving him a facial the other day while he was on the computer. I put some baby oil on my hands, warmed it between my hands and put a bit on his bald head and gave him a facial. He couldnt' stand it. (Now who on earth wouldn't like a facial from me, I give good facials). No beauty creams or anything like that, just light massage and applying the baby oil to his face and skin. Very gently. He coudn't stand it. He doesn't go for this stuff (or so he says). So I give up.

I know there is a disease where your skin falls off. I don't think he has this. I once knew an elderly woman (I must have been 17 or so). She was obese, and over 80. Every time she got up, her skin was left behind. Her daughter explained that she had this disease that her skin would peel off.

This is not what I'm referring to with Alan. He has dry skin. He has patches of it on his forehead and he has the psoriasis. This is auto-immune right??

He's tried all the meds for the psoriasis. Nothing has worked. This morning, I rubbed the A and D ointment on the patch on his leg. It's really nasty. It gets all red and scaly, and then it gets better, then it comes back.

I know it's his body attacking itself. It's not the worst thing in the world compared to the pain of PN, this I know.

Oh well. He's at the gym trying to bring oxygen to his blood cells.

We'll see.

Melody