Taken from one of my other posts in another thread (now I only sport a farmers/faux tan - IE tan everwhere that is visible with normal clothes on, white on the rest):
When I lived in Panama, I fell asleep in a hammock on the beach. It was located under a Bahio, and at the time the sun wasn't on me. As the sun moved across the sky, my back was exposed to the sun for 5 hours. I had been out in the sun all afternoon, so my body was already burned. When I woke up, I literally looked like a lobster. That night I couldn't sleep because the pain was so bad, and the next day the skin on my back, chest, stomach, face, and calves bubbled up. My upper layer of skin was lifted about 1cm off of the rest of my skin, and filled up wiht a yellow liquid. I couldn't wear a shirt for 7 days, nor could I sleep laying down (had to sleep in a chair). I went to one of my mothers friends, who was a military doctor, and he said that there was really nothing that could be done since I had waited 4 days until I saw him. I was covered in 2nd degree burns.
Then, one night as I was watching TV, my sister sliped and hit my back. THe skin ripped off, the yellow liquid draind out of my back, and it hurt like a mofo. The skin over the area where she hit me is now darkened/discolored, and the rest of my affected skin is covered in thousands of freckles. The next day I peeled all of the skin off - it was tough like leather, but didn't hurt. I had enough skin to cover a 3ft by 3ft. area.
Oh, did I mention that I have to go to a dermitologist (sp?) every 6 months so I can have my skin checked for any signs of skin cancer?
Talk about fun!
The sun is bad.
Facebook
Twitter