Hello folks,
Yip, its update time again. I've been very lazy & a bit lackluster with keeping the blog up to speed of late. Truth being told and the God's honest truth that is, is that I simply couldn't be bothered with keeping it updated like I had been doing so.
Harsh but true. I know. Thankfully, It's gotten to the point that thinking about my skin isn't or hasn't been on the daily agenda like we've came to know. Traveling, exploring & having fun have!. Just worked out that I am 55 months into TSW as of today (03/10/18). Funny how these occurrences work out, huh?. For the past seven months, I've been very fortunate to have been traveling around some parts of South America. My last post was near the start of my time abroad. A lot of incredible situations and events have been 'tasted', if that is the correct word to use to describe these events, ha ha. During this time however, my skin has been a bit up and down as I've traveled. For example, at the very beginning of visiting South America, I was in a much more warmer & humid environment in Ecuador. I then headed north to the capital which is called Quito. In Quito, it was still nice weather, but it wasn't as humid as the previous city that I had been in.
After Quito, my next destination was the city of Cuenca. This is when the 'shit hit the fan', guys. The weather was mixed with more rain and clouds being involved rather than the blessings of humidity and sunshine that I had previously tasted (ha, yip, there's that word again). My skin began to flare once again. I was proper gutted as you could imagine, folks. I thought that maybe the skin would clear up quicker like many of us are often guilty of thinking. But, nope. It got worse and worse with time. Now I say worse but what I actually mean is that my arms, hands, legs and feet were the only spots to succumb to that particular flare. Thankfully, it never spread to my face. The only issue there was that my scalp became super dry and flaky. However, not unlike it had done so in the past.
For personal reasons I can't disclose why I was in Cuenca, all I can say are the words 'Ayahuasca', 'San Pedro' and 'Kambo.' I'll just leave that there. You'll have to conduct your own research I am afraid. Yes, I am being lazy again. I would just like to keep this update as compact as possible as I'm not a huge fan of writing up & reading long blog posts.
Back to the skin. The flare stuck around for roughly 3 - 4 months, the darkness had well and truly returned. It wasn't until I visited the beach in Northern Peru that the flare had stopped. Now, I can only speculate that the plant medicines, frog poison, along with time and the fantastic beach weather/lifestyle were the reasons behind this. I spent about a month in the beach town, which was called Mancora. Mancora has a reputation of being a bit of a party place. This is definitely the case. As I did enjoy the odd one or six parties whilst being there. Well, wouldn't have you after being through what we are/had been going through?.
I have to say that I believe everything mentioned is and was a massive factor in the fortunate place that I am currently in at the time of writing.
As always with the ending of most of my posts, I must mention & confirm that I'm still not 100% healed. I would say about 93% healed if using percentages!. For sure I'm a thousand times better, that is a given. The plan is to do another update before the year is out. So, until then, I wish you a gentle and speedy recovery.
Gracias for stopping by!.
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| A tiny bit of discoloration. Not in any means the end of the world. |
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| Good times with my American friends in Cusco, Peru |
