Sunburn ! « ER_Perspective

Jun 2, 2005

Sunburn !

I have my own story on this...
Years ago, when I was a student nurse I decided to try tanning. I am a very fair skinned Canadian, so I should have been very cautious. New to tanning I didn't know just what would happen, I tanned for a 'mere' 10 minutes.

I was pink that night, pink and itchy and sore. The discomfort grew and escalated as I went to bed. I applied lotion, it was soothing and felt good when fresh on, but dried and the discomfort was there all the more, it seemed. I took a bath around midnight, my skin craved coolness, water was soothing. I was getting panicky as I had clinical in the morning and needed some rest. There was some Tylenol in my personal care supplies so I took some, bathed again, and applied lotion yet again. The lotion was drying and the effect not lasting so I applied it yet again and wrapped my limbs and chest and back in saran wrap (was getting desperate for sleep).

It was around 2:30 am, still no sleep and ran out of ideas to gain comfort I walked on over to the Emerg (was living in Nurses Residence at the hospital that I trained at). Fortunately they were not busy so I didn't have to feel too guilty for coming with overexposure from a tanning bed. The doc gave me some T3's and sent me off to sleep and told me to not tan anymore or reduce my time way down as my skin did not take well to it.

I did sleep after taking the Tylenol with codeine's.

Posted at 10:04 am by dochendrickson

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