Sunburn so bad I'm getting the chills

Took a shower today and I felt like Mandy Patinkin from Alien Nation when he got near the ocean.

I'm so red right now the Washington Redskins logo is offended.

 

I got two: Spring Break, eighth grade. Every day for a week I parted my hair straight down the middle, made a ponytail and played basketball from sunup to sundown. Didn't think it was possible for a head to blister like that. It was gross.

Second was summer before senior year of high school. I hated doing the summer reading, so I always did it at the pool. I fell asleep reading "Wuthering Heights" and got the mother of all sunburns on my neck and shoulders. To this day whenever I exercise or spend time in the sun you can still see those marks from that burn.

 

Cocoa butter, baby. Cocoa butter. You'll smell like a snickers, but we swear by it.

 

The worst sunburn I ever got was a couple summers ago. Some friends and I went to Six Flags and I thought I put enough sunblock on to prevent a burn but after a long day in the sun, and in the water park, I felt sick.

Got home that night and couldn't move I hurt so much.

For the next two weeks, I peeled parts of my skin off. My girlfriend of two months at the time, she's my fiancee now, had to peel parts of my back off for 20 minutes once. It was disgusting.

 

any woman who will peel the skin off your back is a keeper. you're marrying very well.

 

Bubbler's line about the Redskin's logo made me embarrass myself laughing in the pressbox.

But glad he checked in, I was worried he had gone all Beirut on us.

 

If this is like a burn a gel might be best. I would google how to treat a burn, and if you have good insurance I would go to the doctor tomorrow if for nothing more than subscription drugs.

 

I'm not using any gel or aloe vera.

You smear it on, and it feels good for a few minutes, but after the effect wears off, then it feels like your burn is self-contained in this gelatinous ooze that not only weighs heavier on your skin, thus bugging your burn more so than if it was left alone, but also makes you sticky and smell like you bathed in chives and Ben-Gay.

OK, aloe vera doesn't really smell like chives or Ben-Gay, but it has that natural medicinal scent to it that doesn't smell good after the initial application.

I seek no heroic measures for my burn, I will suffer my pain with dignity ... except for whining like a little bitch on SJ of course.

 

this won't be popular. but my mom swears by applying liberal amounts of vinegar. you'll smell like crap, but I can attest that it does work.

 

Acid on a burn.

Try this for the pain:

 

I know there's some crazy baking soda and vinegar remedy, altho you risk exploding like a 4th grade science project volcano.

 

Racist.