Scabs!

I have an unhealthy fixation with scabs. It's... well it's disgusting, really, but I don't particularly care. I don't eat them or anything gross like that, but I will get extremely itchy fingers if I see someone with a big scab on them somewhere. I'll want to pick it.

See, I told you. Disgusting. It's bad enough to pick one's own scabbies, let alone getting your fingernails underneath someone else's. Luckily enough (or not, depending how you look at it), I have eczema. Which means I have an abundance of itchy, dry skins cells which, if scratched at too hard, turn into big scabbies. Yay!

Yeah. Disgusting. I try not to pick them, because then they spread, and it's bad enough having scaly shins, without other areas making me look like the demon offspring of Godzilla, or something.

Anyway, the point of this was that I got mortally wounded by a door on Tuesday, and yesterday I deemed the resultant scab ready for plucking. Imagine my joy and wonderment when the whole thing came off in one big strip! Woo! Unfortunately Tom wouldn't let me keep Jeremy (the wonderscab), and I can't share a picture of the dreaded wound either, because I have a wonderfully shitty phone camera. So you'll just have to take my word for it. *nodnod*

9:23 AM - January 20, 2008 - post comment

You are, with out any doubt in my mind, the most disgusting person I have even encountered. And I know pretty disturbed people, as you are aware.

dantesinferno - 10:08 AM - January 20, 2008

Lmao @ 'Jeremy, the wonderscab'!

bebbet - 12:11 PM - January 20, 2008

say hi to jeremy for me, if he's still around that is.

:D

elisataufik - 1:31 PM - January 20, 2008

oh no.. now I've got "jeremy spoke in class today..." going on and on in my head.

elisataufik - 1:32 PM - January 20, 2008

Aw... I'm sorry you couldn't capture the occasion.

In a related note, it was just a few days ago when I scraped out all the scabby stuff from under my thumbnail.. And just a few hours ago a trimmed away the free-flying half of my nail, so now I have a half a nail! Well, it's more like two-thirds.

OgreJehosephatt - 3:02 PM - January 20, 2008

I will confess to digging at my own lesions, but I don't want someone else's goop on me.

thebigp - 3:04 PM - January 20, 2008

Scabs I leave alone, but I do have a habit of plucking hairs one by one here and there on myself. I know it can turn into a big obsession, though so I try to let them be. :P

Minda - 4:14 PM - January 20, 2008

I think everyone does this sometimes. That said, it's not a fascination of mine. LOL I just 'fess up to doing it sometimes. However, I have never had any burning desire to rip out my talons and attack someone else's. Nope, nada! They can have that pleasure all to themselves.

DeeJay - 5:19 PM - January 20, 2008

I'm a scab picker too, I was a clumsy kid (oh who am I kidding I'm a clumsy adult*rolls eyes* )and I was famous for having fantastically skinned knees, but I never minded because I got to pick the resulting fantastic scabs! and I've got Ichthyosis(mildly) so I get plenty of skin scales to pick at as well :D

sarai - 12:57 AM - January 21, 2008

I'm a scab person too.

WelshPixie - 11:22 AM - January 21, 2008

Hooray for scab people!

Although, not -actual- scab people, that'd be quite scary.

Twist - 11:42 AM - January 21, 2008

A friend of mine has similar fetish for zits.

bebbet - 4:26 PM - January 21, 2008

well you are utterly scabaricious!

Chandramoon - 3:20 PM - January 22, 2008

The other day I was standing at the public pool industriously peeling my sister's sunburnt peeling skin off her shoulder, and then realised a lady was looking at me funny.

pd - 10:30 AM - January 29, 2008

HehHehha, Styles tends to spend far to much time inside so on the rare occasion I drag him out doors in the summer he always end's up burning, and then I can peal away :D

sarai - 3:05 PM - January 29, 2008

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