Have you seen JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy recently on TV? The character called Colin Wall (Simon McBurney) who was portrayed as a weak, over-stressed weirdo who had asthma and was always puffing on his inhaler, made my blood boil. Why is every odd character given a 'weak' condition like asthma, allergies, eczema etc. suggesting that these conditions are just a symptom of … [Read more...]
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10 things only eczema people do
I loved this blog post by Deborah Cicurel for Metro.co.uk, "17 things you'll only know if you have eczema". It made me smile because I do most of those things and because it's good to smile about our trials and remember that we have this condition but it's not so bad. We get by with our strange habits and coping mechanisms. So here are a few of my own... any of these sound … [Read more...]