I know that winter is really here, not because of the snow that fell, or the cold temperatures, but because my hands are dry and cracked and full of pain.
This comes at the worst time, this swollen skin, these flecks of pain, at the end of the semester with numerous amounts of writing (or typing at the keyboard) to do, and I never thought it would hurt to write/type, but it does, it hurts in every knuckle and on every other finger, and the stretching of my fingers across the keyboard doesn't help.
I've tried band-aids, lotion, neosporin, but when you use your hands the way I do, and you have a centimeter of skin that has spilt open just above the knuckle on the thumb you often use, there is no remedy.
I keep trying to tell myself that it'll all be over soon. Soon I won't have to worry what kind of condition my hands are in, soon, I won't have to care about anything school related, until I have to again.
and when the winter passes, my hands will heal, they will mend themselves back to normal.
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Aveeno Intense Relief hand cream. It's what saved my over-washed, over-dried hands when I was working at the coffee place, doing baking, and washing my hands about 15 times a day. It wasn't perfect, but at least my knuckle and finger skin stopped cracking and flaking.
ohh. thanks for the tip! I wish I had read this before I went to walgreen's and bought this aquaphor eucerin stuff that's like petroleum jelly in a tube!
I always forget that you know my pain about the coffeeshop stuff.
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