A KRAZY Solution

I have psoriatic arthritis.

It is not as bad as it sounds.

It is arthritis so there are the sore joints – mostly in my hands.

But, with the joint discomfort comes psoriasis as well.

As far as this disease goes, I am lucky. I only have patches of psoriasis on my hands. But, at times, it gets bad. I have been on some pretty high test biologic medications for it.

I remember once my dermatologist called and said to stop taking my (current) meds because if I didn’t, my kidneys would shut down. It was often a crap shoot – did I want cracked bleeding hands or was I okay to accept the risky list of side effects?

Often I would try a pill, or an injection or an infusion for a while and then stop as the side effects started to effect other parts of my body.

It was during one of these “medication breaks” that I asked my dermatologist what I could do about the bleeding cracks in my hands. We are not talking about little papercut like cuts but large painful cracks and flaky skin, making it impossible to bend the joint, open a jar, hold a pen, wash my hands….. It was not fun.

My dermatologist’s very scientific solution was to Krazy Glue to cuts to help seal them up!

I know – “krazy” but it works!

So , I did it but not without incident!

I almost ALWAYS put it on and then forgot (dah!) that I had done so and used that hand to do something! The worst, most alarming time was when I applied quite a lot of Krazy Glue to my thumb to close up a substantial crack and then grabbed the side of the kitchen counter. I COMPLETELY glued my hand to the counter! I panicked and called Rob to come in and help!

I still think that the glue continued to set even more in the time that it took him to lecture me about being more careful with glue! Thanks Rob!

I just recently replaced that countertop (not because of the glue incident) but to this day there was a little piece of me in that countertop – LITERALLY!

And when I was not gluing myself to furniture, I was simply gluing myself to … ME!

Lesson Learned? Apply Krazy Glue to close cuts but do so under supervision and have someone there to make sure you let it dry before carrying on!