I like to imagine myself as this beautiful sun goddess that instantly turns into freaking Giselle when I put my suit on while I work out. Not quite. Even after my 57 miles. Perhaps I should have started prepping much sooner than 19 days before our trip. (Who am I kidding?)
Not only was I not the sun goddess I pictured while I ran, I got a sun/heat rash. Sun goddesses don't get sun rashes.
Rash. I hate that word. (The actual "having one" part sucks too.)
Three days before we headed home, even after applying (and re-applying and re-applying) sunscreen, I ended up getting this blotchy red itchiness on my arms, legs, chest, and stomach.
Sexy.
After a sleepless night of itchiness (putting it lightly) we decided that we'd head to North Shore for the day and I'd stay out of the sun. While Ty was able to distract me for a good 4 hours, about 4 hours and 1 minute into the "adventure" I couldn't handle it anymore. I came to terms with it. I googled the dreaded words: "sun rash, heat rash, remedies" and found this:
- Take a bath in baking soda, corn starch, or oatmeal.
- Apply aloe to the 'affected area'. (Gross)
- Don't itch. (Yah right.)
It's been a week since the dreaded rash. But the lesson remains. I can still be a goddess. An SPF 70 wearing, spray tanning, Sublime Bronze applying goddess.
(The "Giselle" part? Yah, that's an "in your dreams" work in progress.)
P.S. Ty is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo dark. It's annoying.
Hey... a trick about the oatmeal... i remember from when I had chicken pox & really the only thing that helped was oatmeal bath, you don't have to actually bathe in the the floating oatmeal. Put it in a sock & tie the sock or rubberband it to the facet & let the water run through it.
ReplyDeleteJust a trick. I get crazy bad heat rash, i used to be a sun goddess (not like Giselle of coarse), i still don't burn, i get really dark, but as I have gotten older my skin is so much more sensitive.