No, nothing as serious as cancer like a couple of my favorite artists are enduring, more frustrating but relatively minor issues adding to my frustrations over the uncertainty whether I'm gonna get fired ... I have an unknown skin condition that I had previously been told by a nurse was psoriasis but a recent GP said he didn't think it was psoriasis, but didn't know what it was but that he thought it was something related to consumption of beef, pork and related byproducts (including dairy from beef ... I haven't eaten beef in over a decade due to a political boycott, but plenty of dairy) so had me cut those out entirely from my diet for three months to see if my skin improved. It was only a couple of months ago, but my skin has taken a drastic turn for the worse as the weather has chilled (which I expected, as it does every year, but its already worse this year than last). Last year, it was just primarily my legs chapped, flaking heavily with the dried skin cracking badly and even bleeding a bit, leading to several staph infections since I first started noticing these skin problems around 2009.

This year, its affecting my hands ... the skin around and between my knuckles is cracking, splitting and bleeding :/ Its quite painful, though most of the pain is still in my legs, feeling much like a sunburn with intense stinging. I'm not able to walk at any great speed when this happens, and am very slow and am in intense pain when I have to squat to perform a safe lifting, as my thighs and calves swell normally from contraction causing my skin to change shape around the flexed leg muscles.

I don't know what's going on, I am forced to cut out of overtime days I'd rather work (because its motherfricking $200 per day on an overtime day) ... the day after turkey day, overtime days become mandatory for my department. I hope to heck I can get in to a dermatologist tomorrow or next friday to get something going, but I worry it may take too much time to get a diagnosis, much less a treatment before the holiday mandatory overtime hits on Black Friday (the Friday after next).