Why do sunburns...

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Get all nasty?

I saw a lot of sun this last week when I went to eastern Washington to watch my brother play in a baseball tournament. I got a tan, but my shoulders got burned pretty badly. I didn't realize it until today when I was taking a shower (just before writing this actually), when I looked down and noticed that there were shreds of skin just sloughing off of my arms.

The weird part is that the skin came off, but there were parts that had not yet, and they were all bumpy and had fluid under them. I'm thinking this fluid is either sweat (it's been kind of warm here), or it's puss (white blood cells guarding against infection). Now the fluid is clear, not all nasty looking. But the skin came off for the most part, and I'll have to sleep with what is remaining still stuck to my body. That's not that bad, BUT, the skin underneath is starting to get bumps too (still don't know if it's sweat or puss), so that will come off.

It's kind of weird since I never burned except once when I was younger, and stayed outside with no shirt all day in Yakima. BUT the areas that were burned had not seen the sun in a few years. Basically not since football season in highschool (about 6 or 7 years ago).

It was just so weird to look down in the shower and see HUGE pieces of skin moving to the drain. Shreds that were about 6 inches long and a half inch wide at the biggest.

Weird...



Anyways, it's more of a gripe than anything. I feel like an insect, molting.