Last Updated on 3rd January 2019 by Caroline Haye
This is the kind of wet Monday morning in early September that brings back memories of going back to school… the smell of wet coats, soggy wool, chalk dust and gym shoes… and that sinking feeling!!! Or is that just me?!How different from yesterday’s warm sunshine. I spent the whole day in the garden, doing a little bit of sunbathing and a whole lot of tidying the garden and the outside of the house. Hard work, but I really enjoyed it.
If you suffer from vitiligo you will probably relate to me when I say that two of the things that used to make me really anxious were
- being out in the direct sun for more than five minutes or so, and
- getting hot and sweaty (because it used to sweat off the self tan and reveal all those white patches I’d laboured so long to cover up and tried to forget about).
I think one reason I enjoyed yesterday so much was that I wasn’t worried about either of these things. OK, so I still have some mottled white areas on my hands and feet, but the rest of my face and body has re-pigmented so well that I can spend as long as I like in the sunshine and wear a strappy vest top… and feel normal again.
I spent most of my life wanting to feel this way and I wish it for everyone who has vitiligo – or any other skin condition that affects their confidence and self-image 🙂
2 thoughts on “Everyone should get to feel this way”
The blog looks good Caroline. Keep it up.
Steve.
We evolved in the sun, it makes our vitamin D…another vitamin vitiligo suffers are deficient in. I have lost so much pigment the sun doesn’t scare me anymore, if anything I think it can help. I can be in the sun for 45 minutes and not burn…quite strange, seeing how I’m half Irish and live in Florida. Since my dermatologist couldn’t help, I’m taking my health into my own hands and into the sun.