my hands flared up out of nowhere this week and it caught me completely off guard. I hadn’t had a real flare since I was a teenager, so getting hit with this as an adult feels almost humiliating.
Between grad school and my part time job I’m already stretched thin, and I’ve been staying up way too late lately, finishing coursework or baking bread just to decompress. The skin on my knuckles is raw and tight now and it won’t let me forget it’s there. I know stress is probably behind it, but knowing that doesn’t make the itching stop.