I went to the beach in late July …… BAD IDEA!
Don’t get me wrong, it was a great day. I went with two Japanese friends and we had a ball.
I spent most of the time in the water. I ‘sunbathed’ for a total of 20 mins or something – I got bored just lying around. I used some suncream, I wore my tee shirt for most of the afternoon as I was going a little red.
I got sunburned to hell!!!!!
Like holy shit, SERIOUS sunburn. I had to take a day off work. I had heat stroke and almost collapsed. Utter, utter pain. My skin blistered from elbow to elbow, accross my chest and down my back. When I put my work shirt on two days after the beach, every seem on it felt like a knife. I did cry out in pain. It’s a freaking shirt!!!!!
I went to to the pharmacy to get some cream or something and the assistants freaked out. On day three or four my face peeled off, TOTALLY gross. The blistering lasted for a about a week. The skin on my shoulders became very painful from all the extra weight in my chest and upper back.
I couldn’t sleep properly because the sunburn cover 360 degrees of my body. Nightmare.
When the blisters finally burst I woke up to find my pillows SOAKED through with pus, totally minging! Yet it was the happiest I have been during it all.
When the skin on the worst areas peeled, a whole layer peeled off, around a millimetre or tweo thick. YUCK!
It’s all cleared up now, I still have some marks where it was and I’ll have to keep a close eye on my skin lest something nasty appear but I will be very wary of the beach in future.