Burned by an unidentified sleeping injury?
Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 12:09PM Remember the good ol' days of college when you'd joke about UDIs? The Unidentified Drinking Injury, of course! You'd have a good time at a party but wake up with bruises you don't recall getting (because you probably tripped and fell on something on your way back to your dorm).
Well, I didn't drink any alcohol last night but I woke up with a USI... unidentified sleeping injury. What?
I felt the bruise (?) as soon as I woke up and was immediately puzzled. I don't sleep with my rings on, so that's not it. And it's really not a bruise. In fact, it feels like a burn, except there isn't anything hot near my bed (well, except the hubby, ha ha, but he hasn't singed me yet).
And, of course, the ONE finger that's hurt is my ring finger. I don't wear any other rings than my wedding rings and, of course, this injury is exactly where my rings rest. I'm not wearing my engagement ring today because I don't want to further aggravate the "bruise/burn" by accidentally pinching it or chaffing it.
I couldn't go without my wedding ring entirely, though, so I am wearing it and so far, so good. No pain, no added irritation, but . . . what is this? Is it coincidence that I get some weird irritation right where I wear my rings? You can't develop a metal allergy out of the blue, can you?
And, yes, if my fingernail beds seem a bit blue, that's because they are. It's that cold in here. (Or, closer to the truth, I'm just always cold and it's a smidge cold in here.)
And it's never easy to take hand pictures, is it? My hands always end up looking like mitts to me.
Reader Comments (3)
I woke up with scratches all over my hand the other day! I don't have long finger nails and I also don't wear my rings to bed :/ But that's less weird than a burn...
How strange, my mom would say you're allergic to marriage lol!
I had a similar issue a while back with my rings, I wear them all the time, turns out when I was my hands it wasn't really getting dry well so it was a bit of a rash, try getting some lotion and putting that on at night. I move my rings now to dry underneith them whenever I wash my hands.
Seriously - is there a literal 10 month itch? LOL
I lotion my hands every time I wash them (have to, they dry out) and I do take of my rings to dry my hands... so I don't know. So weird.