Hands day

[nwhiker]

People in gyms (apparently, I don't go to gyms) talk about legs day, and arms day and stuff like that.

Well, I need a hands day.

My hands so dry, they are cracking and bleeding. My nails are a mess. I don't normally care about my nails but they're breaking vertically to below the nail line and that a) hurts and b) catches on ramdom stuff, whch again, hurts.

I'm not supposed to put lotion or hand cream on while in lab and while I've been drinking in the lab (water, really! from a sealed bottle!) for very good reasons (*), I try to sit outside while I eat my yogurt, and I don't use hand cream. (*) Most labs have a table outside where you can leave water bottles and the like. We're at the UW Health Science Building, on a main hallway and anything left out gets stolen. Some other labs in smaller corridors do have stuff out, but we really can't. So my water bottle stays in the lab, in a desk drawer.

Anyhow, all that to say that I don't just have hand cream by my computer to apply as needed, though if this continues, I might say fuck it and do it.

I wear nitrile gloves for lots of things but even then, I'm washing my hands a lot. And the bathrooms are public right, so terrible soap and even more terrible toilet paper. They now have plenty of pads and tampons in all women's (?) bathrooms (yay!) but the fact that women use tp every single time we go to the bathroom does not seem to have moved anyone to supply anything better, LOL. Maybe I'll start a campaign? 🤣

So. Hands a mess. Dry and cracked. I spend the evenings and weekends applying Norwegian Formula hand cream, my fave, but I'm just keeping things from getting worse, it's not getting better.

But I have no idea what do to do give my hands a spa day to help the skin heal and do... something with the nails.