Sunburnification
 

So, I've seen a lot of threads on FIRST home remedies for everything.

And yes, you can fix sunburns with Aloe Vera.

But I'd like to take a moment to BRAG about my sunburn, and ask y'all to do the same. Because for us pale kids, sunburn is a measure that yes, we have been outside, and as someone said to me most eloquently...

"Genia, you went outside? Did you melt or something?"

So I'll start...I really sunburn funny when I do. I end up looking like some aztec warrior with lobster painted on me. And I sunburn after 5 minutes. Of course, I aloeverify, so it never ends up too bad.

Therefore, I am also adding a poll optioin to this quiz.

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Sunburnification is best avoided with Sunscreenifying oneself. But if one is sunburnified, than i reconmend aloeverifying. I'm currently burnified too.

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I got sunburned walking around for a few hours in watertown, cause it was just spring and I dont go outside in the winter, at all...

I didn't aloevera, but it wasnt a very bad burn, mostly just my nose. Had a really bad one from a road trip this one time tho XD

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I don't burn very easily unless I'm on the lake on my boat all day (water magnifies the sun or something weird making it burn you easier). At a track meet 2 weeks ago, it was only 55 or so and a girl got 2nd degree burns on her arms from the sun.

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I only get sunburned when I go to the beach, everywhere else I just tan.

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I don't tan... at all. Therefore I get very bad sunburns, including two blistery ones.

In the summer of 2000 I went to a waterpark; outside for 8 hours with no shirt on, and no sunscreen (stupid stupid stupid!). My shoulders were fried, and I had blisters. To top it off, it peeled too early and scabbed up.

In 2003 I went caving off of Santa Cruz Island on a kayak (one of the coolest things I've ever done, besides robotics). I put on sunscreen, but I was out for 5 hours plus, not counting cave time. I ended up with a full back sunburn (I could not stand up straight) and a sunburn on my ankles that ended up blistering. It hurt to walk for over a week.

Needless to say I learned my lesson. I use SPF 37 (Bullfrog gel, great stuff) or higher. When my family went to DC and other various east coast locales (see my who am I picture) I did not get sunburnt once (although I did get dehydrated... which is another story).

-Daniel

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Oh, I thought you were asking for those FIRST-brewed remedies.

I hear white lithium grease works great! :D

I'm actually betting it does, but I wouldn't recommend trying it.

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I have a story about sunburns, alright.

It was the summer of 2003. I was attending the South Carolina AFJROTC Cadet Officer Leadership School. (Hard to believe with the hair, I know.) I was a cadre, meaning I was in charge of twenty-five cadets. Monday as I was loading in, I scratched myself and had to put on a band-aid.

Tuesday morning, I put on my uniform, ignoring the sunscreen. Biiiiiiiig mistake, as we would be outside all day at The Citadel (and if you've ever been to The Citadel, you know that shade isn't too available). That night, I took the band-aid off. While the rest of me was bright red, this one patch was my standard pale-as-anything.

For the remaining four days, it was sunscreen all over.

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Being a black man I thought I would never burn.
Then one day I attended a track meet for a whole day and when I got home I found my bald head was burned and peeling. :ahh:

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I can burn in 15 minutes, but it's been over 10 years since I've gotten a sunburn. I once had a sunburn so bad that I couldn't wear clothing for 2 days (yes, I had to stay in bed with just a sheet to cover me, the blisters were that bad). And ever since that sunburn, I've developed an allergy to sunlight and my arms and hands break out in an itchy rash if exposed to too much sunlight (an hour or more) even if I'm wearing sunblock, no matter how high the SPF is or how often I apply it. At least that was true until last year when I discovered Coppertone's Spectra3 (50 SPF for me). I used it all last summer and it seems to block whatever causes me to react to sunlight like that.

Not to lecture any of you but please don't dismiss the damage the sun can do. I take after my father, he burns just as easily. And after battling skin cancer once, he still doesn't use sunblock. And if any of you don't want to think of the health issues, think of the vanity issues: premature aging. Yes, a tan may look nice now, but it is taking a toll on your skin, and an occasional use of moisturizer is not going to reverse that damage.

But should you find yourself with a sunburn, Aloe is one of the best for keeping your skin from drying out. Noxema is also good, plus it feels soooooo good on a burn (that would be the camphor and eucalyptus oil). It's got a strong smell that some people don't like, but to me it always smells like comfort.

Heidi

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i love my italian skin :D i tan within the first few seconds i hit the sun lol the only place i burn is uner my eyes and on my sholders and nose. other than that...i tan instead of burn up.

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Sunburn? What is this sunburn that you speak of?

Can't quite say that I've gotten a sun burn - I've gotten browner - but I think thanks to my dad's heritage (being Arabic n' all) - I have quite a high tolerance to being sunburned! :)

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I'm mostly Irish, and some German.

I have *white* skin. I go out in the sun for 10 minutes and I start to get pink!! Luckily, after my second burn of the year I usually tan pretty well. :)

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Last year my friend got badly sunburnified from the high octane "sunage" we recieved. We both went to school the next day and it hurt so bad! My friend brought a bottle of the green aloe vera gel and that was our best friend for the next few days (especially since everybody was touching our backs)

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Don't forget to sunscreen your feet - my first Nationals I forgot to sunscreen them, and I was wearing Birkenstocks...needless to say, foot sunburns are my least favorite.

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Hey I'm brown. I don't even know what getting sun burned feels like:p.

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Not true B-rat. I get sun burn at the beach if I am there for half an hour... and it HURTS!! :(

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I think it just depends on your skin type. i know I can stay out forever and not burn at all. I also keep my tan all year long even though 99 percent of the time I am inside my dark dreary room.

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i burn too...but then after the blisters and peeling go away i have a nice tan. i've had a few usnburns...at the beach bulding a sandcastle for 3 hours..no shirt...no sunblock...yeah...blisters on my back...ouch.

i've got a picture of one of my bad ones. i went to a big outdoor concert last september, and had my hat on the whole day (i usually wear it backwards....more comfortable for me). i guess i didn't even think about it until after...whoops :) like they say, a picture says a thousand words:

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The water doesn't magnify the sun, it mearly reflects a lot more of it then trees and grass do. This results in more sunlight reaching you then normal, hence the easier burn.

Sailing is great fun during the summer. Those frostbite races are nice, but there is something nicer about sailing when the water is more then 34 degrees or so. :)

Wetzel
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got burnt this weekend, only lightly. But it still only took 10 minutes from me to go from, Irish White Boy to literal Irish (with) Red Neck. Not to mention i had SPF 30 on.

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Last year at the beach I got a sunburn so bad on my arms and back I had such a hard time moving my arms and such... Then while I still had my sunburn and someone who thinks what I do in Robotics is stupid "accidentally" ran into me in the halls and I have so many scars on my back from that that it isn't even funny

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I'm half Mexican and half "Caucasian" so I'm pretty much in the middle as far as skin tone goes...

The only bad sunburn I've ever got is from when I was in Hawai'i, on Waikiki beach in the water for about 2 hours. I never usually burn in such a short amout of time, but I guess Hawai'i is closer to the equater or something! (That never occured to me at the time)

It didn't blister, and it was only on my chest and shoulders. But it stung really bad and I had to borrow other people's aloe gel because I didn't have enough money left to buy my own. At least I rememberd to sunscreen my face. I got more freckles from it.

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i'm puerto rican... yet very very fair-skinned for a puerto rican (my cousins are all darker than me... needless to say i'm a little jealous) ANYWAYS, sunblock is a nice thing to wear. being floridian i like the tan lines (its sort of proof that i live in FL lol) but once at a robotics car wash about a week or so before Homecoming, i had the brilliant idea of not only not wearing sunscreen, but also, i work this pink pucca necklace. long story short, by the time Homecoming rolled around, my back was two different colors; near the shoulders it was white because all of my tan skin had flaked off, but halfway down my back it was still tan... not to mention the nice white ring around my neck--courtesy of the necklace.

...i still have those tanlines...

and as Heidi said, you've got to be careful with sunburns. skin cancer isnt cool, and neither is premature aging. would you rather look pale or look about 20 years older than you really are?

and for my brown-skinned friends... it doesnt matter what levels of melanin you've got in your skin.. you should still wear sunscreen to protect your skin from harmful UV rays... you may not end up looking darker, but your skin still takes the heat. (no pun intended)

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I suffered slight sunburnification from a seven mile road hike yesterday. I have a very bad feeling that I will contract a severe case of sunburnification at the nationals, I mean Championship Event.

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I went tanning yesterday because I thought it'd be cute to have a bit of a tan at the Championship event. Well I was in there 10 minutes and now am the color of a tomato from the neck down. My legs, my torso, my back, my "backside", ect ect. I can't sit, I can't stand, I can't walk. Bad Idea. If you see me at Nationals, Do NOT HIT ME ON THE BACK!!! I will hit you with a tetra. Instead, bring me aloe vera please!

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I'd like to verify that I am currently sunburnified!

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I was sunburned really badly over the summer, and BEMIS can attest to this:


I has blisters over 20% of my back,
I couldn't move my arms more that 20*,
I couldn't sleep on my back for weeks,
I couldn't wear any heavy shirts or jackets,
NOW I HAVE FRECKLES ALL OVER MY BACK!

It hurt.


*degrees

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ahaaha at last someone who agrees with me, same here no sunburn,

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Aargh! Foot sunburns!! Aargh!!3!

(Did I mention that I spent my first 21 years in Huntington Beach?)

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At the risk of sounding like -- you know -- a parent or something, wear a hat and smear sunscreen on your exposed skin. Skin cancer is nothing to joke about, and a teenage sunburn can lead to a melanoma at 40. If skin cancer doesn't actually kill you, you might be like my father-in-law who has had to have skin cancers carved out of his face and ears several times over the last 50 years -- and every divot leaves a scar. I grew up sailing and bodysurfing in Huntington Beach, and I have already had to have a painful treatment for pre-cancerous skin lesions. I'd rather you all have pale skin (for you northern European types) than start growing skin cancers.

There. I know I sounded like a parent, but I feel better now.

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I remember that. That was horribly disgusting.

I am unable to achieve true sunburnification unless I am at marching band practice. Then my neck and face get horribly burnt and sometimes blistered. Still not as bad as Cody's though.

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I don't get sunburn. :cool:

SPF 40, baby!

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If I don't put on sunscreen (or even if I do) I will burn. Back-to-back burns on the upper back hurts. A few true stories:

Summer camp on houseboats on the Sacramento Delta (03): I put sunscreen on myself in the morning, sat on top of the boat for a couple hours, and after that, found out I had very red legs. If I hadn't been wearing water shoes, my feet would have been red too. Moral: One application is not enough. Reapply later.

Early one summer (04), on a camping trip: Went for a swim in a river without sunscreen. My upper back got it.

Later that summer: at a Scout camp, took badge classes at the pool for three hours a day. Got very red upper back in the first day. Forgot sunscreen the second day. Third day: [Lifesaving badge counselor]: Please don't tell me you forgot to put sunscreen on again. [Me]: I remembered this time!

I got burned about a week ago on my arms just doing the lawn (a two hour job, approximately.)

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I'm excruciatingly white, with thin light blonde hair as well, and am light enough to have been dubbed "Albino Jesus" before in my days with longer hair. I burn extremely quickly, faster than just about anyone else in my family or that I know.

To make matters worse, I live in Arizona. I can start burning here in March usually, and will continue to be able to all the way through September (I already got a slight burn about mid-march of this year walking 3 miles one morning). On particularly bad days in the summer I've burned simply from walking to a friend's house who lives only 4 blocks away.

Band camp in August is great too. About a gallon of water per person, hats, as much outside time in the evening as possible, and SPF 40 for everyone (that 5 and 10 tanning is stuff is like shielding something from bullets with a piece of paper).

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So far, the only parts of my body that has managed to suffer sunburnification are my shoulders. ...It was kinda neat to peel skin off a week later.
I hypothesize that the rest of my skin has developed sun-resistance, since I never bothered to put any sunscreen on in my life. I do tan during the summer, though, if I get out of the house enough. It doesn't look good on me. I'm already kind of blah-dark for an Asian girl.

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The sun? Whats that? The big lightbulb in the sky?

Wow - it's probaly a waste of energy. Hmm, that certainly doesn't look like a filament in the center. I wonder who gets to change it? The great janitor in the sky? Poor guy, he must have a big ladder.

Oh, you mean its not a indecasent lightbulb? Is it flourescent? Can't be, no, it's too yellow, too much heat. Looks like halogen to me.

Wait, you say it's fusion powered? Oh what? The French got ITER working and now own the big lightbulb? How much did they pay for that?

Wait, what do you mean it's not a lightbulb...

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Within the first 10 minutes in Chicago Saturday I was already burnt to a crisp, and yes I did wear sunscreen... spf 30.

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who has time to get sunburned when there is THE SUPER BOWL OF SMARTS to prepare for?

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Bah, we walk to Altlanta, from California, uphill, through the snow, both ways. You sunburn quite easily like that.

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As everyone else I've met with red hair, I burn really easily, SPF 70something is what I use. (Get stuff with Titanium Dioxide, it works wonders) I did end up with a tan after PE last summer, but that has mostly gone away.

Amen to that. What people don't realize is how damaging a "healthy" tan is. Tanning is a response to damage, trying to prevent more, like a scab. If you're covered in scabs do you look healthy? NEVER TRY TO TAN. It is even recommended that babies aren't allowed in the sun for something like the first six months... period, no exceptions. Don't neglect your eyes either, they can be damaged too. (Make sure you have sunglasses that protect against UV-A and UV-B, ones that don't promote damage) Don't use tanning beds either, when ever I hear that someone does this I want to knock some sense into them, most skin cancers aren't life threatening, melanoma is, it is caused by exposure to UV-A, guess what tanning beds use? UV-A. Tanning bed use triples your chances of getting it. DON'T DO IT! (sorry if that went on a bit, I feel very strongly about people potentially ruining their life for a temporary aesthetic benefit)

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I don't usually get sunburns but I did get one on the top of my head attending a track meet.
The day was partly sunny and barely in the 60's but becasue of that I didn't take any precautons and cover the top of my head with a hat and I was flaking for days.

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Haha, yup.

The first time I went down to Florida to visit UM, I didn't just get sunburned. I would prefer to call it sun RAPED, as opposed to sun "kissed".

Being a redhead with a fair complexion, you would think that I would have anticipated the stronger UV rays down in Florida. But, 5 five hour trip from Miami to Gainesville in a convertible - on a cloudy day with NO SUNSCREEN - gave me the worst sunburn I had ever had. My entire upper chest/shoulders were cracked and blistered, and I had to go to the doctor to get burn cream. At first, it didn't hurt too bad, but the day I came back to school, it started to dry out (and get really painful). I went to the nurse, and the "normal" stuff that they give to relieve sunburns hurt me soooo bad that I was literally in tears and squirming about 5 seconds after she put it on. She told me that I had a second degree burn and needed to go to the doctor.

Even today, 7 months after that visit, whenever I take a shower and the hot water runs over my chest, the areas that were burned still turn bright pink. I don't know if that means the deeper layers of skin are still healing, or what. But it's pretty weird. Next year, when I move to Florida, I will be careful to wear sunscreen EVERY DAY. I never want to repeat that painful experience again. I know that having really fair skin isn't considered to be in style, but honestly, I don't care. It's my way of being unique. Plus, I don't have to worry about skin cancer from excessive tanning. :)

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Lets see, being Irish, Swiss, German, English, French, Candien, and Scottish, I burn in the time it takes you to say Jack Robinson. I got my first tan line last summer, and that was only because i was canoeing for a week, and i got burned so much it became a tan. Burns dont hurt anymore, because it happens so much to me. I get burned playing minigolf for 45 minutes. They need to make an SPF 6000. I don't get tan, i get freckles. Its disgusting. I have freckles the size of the diameter of a pencil eraser on the end. They aren't cancer, theyre just massive freckles. And they are all over my back. Its actually really funny.

Although I know this one kid on the canoe trip who had his shirt off the entire time. Well, he had these massive blisters and was in so much pain for the rest of the trip. Ouch.

As for turning pink in the shower, I don't think that has anything to do with burns. I turn pink in the shower if the water is hot enough.

I was in Mexico and got so badly burned I couldn't move. At all. My cousin kept asking me to play, and she got really annoyed with me that I wouldn't. It hurt to move. I used a bottle of Aloe a day. It was pretty bad.

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Both are burns, just the sun is a radiation burn and the shower is a thermal burn. If the pink goes away right when you get out, then it was just the blood vessels there dilating like crazy to carry away the extra heat to help prevent a burn. So the same mechanism as a burn response just healed real fast.

Wetzel

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got my first sunburn of the year yesterday...it hurts

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I'm burnt....side of the face hurts really bad....:( darn race ;)

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Yah...I had my first burn a while ago...not as bad as seasons past, but still annoying.

Sunburnification FTL.

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ironic that I am sitting here, trying not to move because my sunburnt hurts so bad and I find this thread...
I'm the whitest white girl ever. I burn so fast it's not even funny (unless I'm sunscreened nastily)
For my birthday I got a tanning package so I don't get put into the hospital when I go to Hawaii next year:rolleyes:

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I'm sure you can all see that I'm one of those people that doesn't tan at all. I just burn, and burn, and burn some more.

I remember my worst sunburn was when I was in West Virginia going White Water Rafting and Kayaking. For some reason I didn't think to apply sunblock to my legs. Being on top of a sit on top kayak exposed my legs and just fried them. Blisters followed and made the rest of the trip somewhat painful.

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im irish italian and german, so i dont burn, or tan, i stay the same color year round

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I sunburnified mowing the lawn on Saturday. It was in the 90's so I took My shirt off and didn't put on sunscreen, not the brightest thing in the world,

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Woohoo... I got my first sunburn of the season today!

In gym class, we are playing tennis on the courts outside. Well, today we had a long block (an hour and 12 minutes) in the blazing hot sun, not a cloud in the sky, with hot and humid weather. Even though I sat out in the shade alot, I still managed to get sunburned on my chest and shoulders (although the burn isn't severe). It will probably be gone within the next few days, but its still slightly annoying.

<-- my lovely burn

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Believe it or not, I've never had a sunburn in my life, till date (touch wood). I tend to just 'tan'. I'm Indian, and born in the Middle East, lived there for about half my life. That might have something to do with it, but I'm not sure =S.

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Me and the Sun, we don't get along. I don't tan, I don't burn, I stroke.
SPF 15 was the best thing that happened to me (24 years ago!), I could actually go outside not dressed like it was winter.

Don

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I'm another one that doesn't tan. I get sun poisoning and I got a bad case of it on my arms this past weekend. Working out in the middle of an asphalt driveway on a black car with no available shade didn't help matters any. My arms are in pain and I have small blisters that resemble poison ivy. Time to put some more aloe on!

I usually try to stay out of the sun or use sun block but the driveway offers almost no shade and when working on a car the sun block wouldn't stay on. After spending Sunday thru Tuesday out there I'm paying for it now. I needed the space back in the driveway and couldn't wait. I took the engine and other assorted parts and the salvage yard hauled the carcass off earlier today.

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I got a rather painful sunburn last month while I was in Maine. It was the day off for most of the staff, so we went to one counselor's lake house to swim and grill out and generally avoid doing anything that so much as mentioned camp. I borrowed another counselor's spray-on sunscreen (which is the best idea ever!), but I apparently didn't get full coverage on my shoulders--just two spots.

That was Wednesday. Thursday, I was hurting pretty bad; on went the aloe (and frequently!), in went the ibuprofen, and out came the oldest and most comfortable T-shirts I had with me. Same song for the next two days, with the other counselors, most of whom were suffering a similar fate, adding in the challenge of actually FINDING the aloe. By Sunday, I was good enough to sleep on the train with just a little bit of pain from holding myself in an unnatural position. (Of course, with that particular night the way it was, I was more focused on staying awake from 2:00 AM until noon in New York City on hardly any sleep...but that's another tale.)

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Yeah. I burned. This bad. In 2 hours...

Please wear sunscreen and don't be like Beth!