Imagine

Ever felt an itch before? You know, the kind you feel immediately after being stung by some insect that you didn't realise existed? Remember that itch yet? Yes?

Now imagine that itch is all over your body, from your face, to your neck to your torso, to your upper and lower arms, to the back of your knee, to your calves to the tops of your feet---everywhere where there might be skin, it itches. Feeling it yet?

Now imagine further that you try to relieve that itch. How would you do that? By scratching at it, right? Imagine how you might relieve an itch that is all over the body at once. Imagine that the itching is intense, and that you need to relieve it at all costs, because it is highly annoying right?

Normal scratching doesn't seem to work, does it, since the more you scratch at it, the itchier it becomes. You'll keep scratching until your nail inadvertently breaks the fragile skin from over scratching. Now there's something new: you have a small skin wound that hurts like hell when water is run over it. Worse, since the itch is extensive and you had to scratch everywhere, you are covered with many of these micro wounds throughout your skin.

Imagine taking a shower in that. Imagine taking a shower using antiseptic bath lotions with that. Now imagine leaving the shower. The skin will slowly dry itself up and suddenly you find yourself in this rather uncomfortable and stiff situation. What do you do now? The itch returns; it always does. You put moisturiser and hope for the best. But the itch will never go away.

Imagined all that yet? Welcome to my world of living hell.