A Man or Malaria…..You Choose….
Writing by Jes on Thursday, 30 of October , 2008 at 6:10 pm
A Man or Malaria
There are just some things that you are born into. For me, it is bad skin. Eczema has always plagued me from enormous breakouts to a mild symptom…eczema has always had me in a chokehold. In the growth of my womanly being I have realized that in the midst of certain breakouts I manage to avoid men. I can always do a sexy in a turtleneck top but if it ever came down to shedding down to some laciest threads I didn’t want to explain the bumps and scars on my skin. It’s not fun pillow talk. You always want your skin to be a landscape for fingers to wander, not a lesson in Braille writing.
These moments in my life had me working on all natural diets, Crisco mud baths, oatmeal injections, whatever drug I could find to cure my eczema breakouts…and always a tube of horticozone cream on standby. I can give more remedies then that doctor on Oprah; I am an expert of treatments of eczema, legal and illegal forms. Men don’t understand how important that moment is of nakedness, full exposure…the ability to see every lump, flop, bump, bruise, excess or not enough of…so whatever possible a woman will endure that just to have a flaw free exposure striptease.
In Africa, me and my eczema has become one. There are no preservatives in the food so I am naturally on an all natural diet, my lotion lubrications are twice daily, my hair is bouncy, and I loving it…I finally feel a sense of stress from my anxiety behind my eczema. I can do the bare minimum and be okay, nothing a little Shea butter can’t buff.
So imagine my horror to wake up on Monday morning with a big reddish rash sprawled over my inner thighs. So bad it looked like I douched with poison ivy. I cried trying to retrace my steps to figure out how this thing occurred, but I know it is not the eczema. This red scaly rash looks like the tour map for the Grand Canyon and I can’t figure out the culprit. There is only one thing that I have been doing unnatural during my entire stay here….the Malaria pills.
I dig through the suitcase remains to find out the warning information on Doxy. Right there, “May cause serious rashes”. What the Mess? I have fought all these years and found a cure to my eczema (the motherland) just for my anti-malaria pill just to bring out another type of rash? That is just some old mess right there. I read on…
“Will cause water retention; lose the ability to urinate naturally”
“Can cause staining of teeth”
“Will cause birth control pills to lose their effectiveness”
“Avoid sunlight, will cause bruising and burns”
And that is when I realized, me taking the malaria pills is me losing the ability to any productive sex life that I could encounter. The water retention is why I am looking bloated all the danggone time even though my clothes are fitting better and it seems I am losing weight. So in essence I lose weight, but I keep the figure because my water has nowhere to go. Better yet, my urine has a colored tint to it (sky blue) the color of the pill. So when I do go, I piss the rainbow…that is just crazy. Then, how am I going to explain that my bumps, burns, and bruises are just reactions to a malaria pill in the midst of getting naked. No conscience brother I know is going to believe that the woman he trying to lay down with got all these markings and ain’t contagious. I am like a billboard for why to have safe sex and the truth is I am so doped up on Malaria pills that a mosquito dies a fart distance away from me. But the only way for me to be sexy is to drop the malaria pills and get my sexy back.
So is it the malaria pills, or is it the man? Which one stays and which one goes? I can’t have one with the other, it is a choice. No man I know would mess with these bumps unless they was fighting for a green card….but malaria is a serious disease and I can’t even have the flu without thinking I am going for a walk on the other side.
Malaria or a Man….
What a choice….
Category: November 08, Uncategorized
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