About a month ago, I was diagnosed with a rare skin disorder called dermographic uticaria. It's not a serious disorder (just really, really irritating!!) and only 2-5% of the population have been diagnosed with it. There is no known cause and there isn't a cure for it either. So I was stuck with taking two antihistamine medicines to relieve the irritation and told to avoid triggers (which is hard to do when you don't know what those triggers are).
In case you are wondering what dermographic uticaria is, let me explain it to you a little bit. Huge, red welts or hives will appear on a random spot on my body for no apparent reason. They are massively itchy, but when I scratch it causes the rash to worsen. If you're still wondering, yes, it is so annoying and sometimes even painful (try scratching until you bleed).
The weird (and kind of cool!) thing about this disorder is that you can write on your skin. Yeah, you can write on your skin! See, dermographism (another name for the disorder) causes a rash to appear on places that you have touched. So if I gently run my fingernail across my arm and write my initials, within a few minutes it looks a tattoo stamped on my arm.
Now, I don't tell you all of this so you can feel sorry for me or thing I'm proud of this crazy skin disorder. I tell you this because I want you to be a witness. A witness to what? I want you to be a witness of this...
As I told you earlier, this disorder is hugely irritating. From what I've read, it usually goes away in 5-10 years. But I don't plan on living with it that long. I am believing that God is going to heal me of dermographic uticaria. It doesn't matter if it's in 1 month or 1 year, I have full faith that God is going to use this for His glory. This is what I want you to be a witness to. I want everyone of you who reads this to know that, when this disorder goes away, it will be by God's healing hand alone.
But for right now, I will wait on Him and live in this crazy skin I'm in. Peace out! :)
