Best Laid Plans... Not!

Talk about counting your chickens before they hatch!

So my 'foodie weekend' didn't turn out quite as well as I'd hoped. In fact it couldn't have been worse. Apart from the cake which was brilliant and got both my sister and me many accolades everything else was just dreadful. The crab curry looked amazing but the crab was probably a little off. And even after fair warning that the crab didn't taste as fresh as it should I went ahead and ate quite a bit. Both my parents and sister suffered upset stomachs for 2 days but miraculously nothing happened to me... until day 3. Which was Monday.

I have since been breaking out into terrible rashes - on my face :'( First came the red welt on my chin under my mouth which started out looking like a nasty scratch but is currently resembling a deep gash. Yesterday my nose developed a tiny cut and this morning I noticed red marks on it, exactly where my glasses rest. The skin under my right eye is also beginning to peel. Oh and it gets worse... I've been going to work looking like a freak!!!

A word of advice - Google may be the best place to find answers to almost anything but if you suddenly break out into rash do not DO NOT type in the symptoms and try to guesstimate what it might be.