Well I just had a major freak out…like full blown panic attack in the middle of lunch.  I was sitting there with Ben and Ellie eating lunch and minding my own business when I looked down at my finger.  My left thumb looked like I had smeared white paint across it.  It wouldn’t be a big deal except I haven’t touched any kind of paint today.  I started mentally retracing what I’ve done in the last few hours wondering if I had touched anything where white paint could have rubbed off.  Nope.  Nothing.

So I tried watching my hands.  Still there.  I tried to scrape it off, and it didn’t budge. That’s when I noticed it looked more like a chemical burn.  The skin was slightly raised, and it was obvious by that point my actual skin was ghost white.  I started freaking out a bit as I showed my finger to Ben, and as he was inspecting it I held up my right thumb to compare.  That’s when we watched it happen.  Suddenly out of nowhere before our eyes a white patch appeared on my right thumb in virtually the same spot.  My panic went from slight to full blown hit the roof mode.  What the heck is wrong with my fingers?  It took Ben a few minutes to calm me down as we started yet again thinking about what I had touched.

Honestly the only things I’ve really touched in the last few hours were my crock pot (and it’s black), some stickers Ellie was playing with while I cooked, the laundry, my cell phone, and my netbook to look up some stuff for a friend who is having minimally invasive spine surgery.

As I grabbed my netbook to Google for “white spots on thumb” I noticed the spots were starting to go away.  An hour later, and they are completely gone from both thumb, but both thumbs have a “warm” feeling.  It’s like both thumbs are radiating heat.  I don’t know what the crap just happened, but it was definitely weird!  The only thing Google turned up was a thread on discovery.com full of other people who have experienced the exact same thing.  Almost all of them reported touching peroxide, the peroxide bottle, or a cleaning produce containing peroxide before the spots appeared, but I haven’t touch any of those.  My guess is either peroxide got onto something I did touch (the bottle was sitting on the counter yesterday near where I just cooked), or my skin had a crazy reaction to something else like maybe the glue on the stickers Ellie was playing with.  Whatever it was it wasn’t normal, and it totally freaked me out!

Talking about my knee brace got me thinking about how I really need to order Ben a new ankle brace.  When he had a motorcycle wreck a few years ago he messed up both ankles pretty badly.  Every year the right one gives him trouble both in the cold months and in the hottest months of the year, and wearing his ankle brace is really the one thing that helps the most.

He’s been complaining with his ankle hurting the past few weeks during this heat wave, but he hasn’t been able to wear his brace because he can’t find it.  I’ve searched high and low for it, but I think it’s time to break down and buy him a new one.  After checking out the aircast airsport I think that may be the one I get for him. His old one was from the hospital (and of course hospital priced), but I can’t afford another super expensive $100+ one. I’m thinking the Airsport may do the job, and for a much cheaper price! It looks almost identical to his old one, so it’s definitely worth giving it a try.