Tuesday, June 9, 2020

34. A New Kind of Pain


I was sitting casually in my office having a perfectly normal conversation about sky diving, wet bulb devices and the evils of cheese on one's digestive tract when the following exchange took place:

Me:  (scratching an itch on my head)  OW!

Boss:  What's wrong?

Me:  That hurts.

Boss:  What hurts?

Me:  My head.

Boss:  You have a headache?

Me:  No.    (I remove my little cotton chemo hat)

Boss:  OW!

Me:  What?

Boss:  Get a little SUN today?

Me:  Yeah, five minutes - why?

Boss:  Your scalp is a tomato.

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Five.  Minutes.

Think about places on your body that have never seen the sun before and then imagine you'd accidentally burned them to a crisp in five minutes.

It's like somebody up in the sky was playing with a magnifying glass and my glowing white scalp was the allegorical bug.

#chemolife  #firstworldproblemsinathirdworldcountry  #weartheHAT

1 comment:

  1. Ouch! Sounds painfully. But it is understandably how it would burn so quickly

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