I once experienced an episode where the skin of my lips sloughed off entirely. This happened in the first grade. I remember having very chapped lips, and developed some crusting ulceration on the corners of my mouth. It progressed, and soon my lips appeared to have lip liner around the entire circumference. Some of my little friends and also their parents thought I had on lipstick as a six year-old, but it was actually a scabbing, painful lesion.
My parents took me to the doctor, and they told my parents to apply petroleum jelly to my lips. I applied it constantly. I brought it to school, used it at home, and eventually used up the entire old-looking tube. One day, feeling adventurous, I peeled off an entire section of lip skin in one piece. I remember being fascinated by this, and played with my 2-inch piece of lip skin for the rest of the day.
Take-home points:
1) I'm pretty sure this is where my chapstick addiction comes from.
2) I'm never figured out why the skin thing happened in the first place.
3) I am still drawn to gross skin things today.
In other news, we received an email today from our infectious diseases professor congratulating us. Apparently over 60% of my class (ie, 80 students) have a cumulative 95% or higher in the class. I was feeling pretty good about myself having studied my brains out this entire semester, and at best, I would be only average. At worst, I'd be in the bottom 40% of the class.
Why is medical school so impossible and demoralizing.
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