I am an idiot.

I was sitting in the hammock relaxing… I picked up a nearby spade to just dig up a little not-quite-flat spot … next thing you know my hand hurts, I look, and I have a blister and I think I got a latex reaction from the last bandaid I used so I guess I’ll just put on this neosporin and wave my hand around. ARGH

UPDATE I don’t have a latex allergy. Turns out they are much worse. It seems the adhesive just tore my skin, which is more fragile “as you get older” as the chemo nurse said REPEATEDLY. This time she took the tape off slowly with an alcohol scrub (and my fingernails, since she was wearing gloves.) It didn’t even leave a bruise, let alone an abrasion. The stupid blister is getting better too.

My chemo nurse has a respiratory reaction to latex, which is much worse than a skin reaction. She says it is due to a lot of gloves being made in the early days of AIDS, of low quality, which leaked latex in to the air to sensitize people and cause reactions. Allegedly. But my hospital is almost latex free except for the colored bands they use after blood tests to hold on gauze.