Some thoughts:

First off, any WoW fans out there? (World of Warcraft to all of you going ”...no?” lol)

In the game, the race known as the night elves have facial markings that vary. Some are just around the eyes, some are more on the cheeks. I happened to be thinking about them one night… and it kind of hit me. I am going to pretend my rosacea is simply a throwback to my elven heritage!

Okay, not really, but take a look and tell me what you think.

(Cute story to anyone who might read this and get a kick out of it: Once I was playing on the Alliance side, at a very low level, when out of nowhere this level 60 Undead comes around the corner and we practically ran into each other. My character was female, and he was a male, so I thought ”...why not…” I stripped off all my armor and clothes down to my underwear and top and started “dancing” with him. He didn’t kill me, though it would have been so easy for him. Instead, he blew me a kiss and ran off down the road in the direction I had just come. LOL!!! I couldn’t believe a bit of harmless flirting worked!)

I’ve caught the cold that seems to be going around mercilessly right now. It seems to have affected my rosacea, too, because my skin was really itchy and flaking last night, and then later it was sore.

I remember when I was pregnant with Gabriel it REALLY hurt a lot, especially toward the end months. In fact, during the baby and bridal shower thrown for my sister and I a week before Gabriel’s birth, there is a photo taken of me where my face is just so red it hurts to look at it even now.

And yet that wasn’t ENTIRELY the pregnancy. During pregnancy, a woman’s body IS warmer than other times (one more reason to have a spring baby… keeps you warmer during the winter! :P) but for a few months before Gabe was conceived, it finally got bad enough I grudgingly went to see a doctor for the dermatologist reference. If anything, since then it has went down… I’m starting to wonder just how much pregnancy DOES factor into it, if at all, because up til now… things were behaving surprisngly reasonably. (Granted I’ve been too tired to keep track of what day it is… but still, lol.)

This is certainly the thorn in my side, but I remind myself how many other things I could have, and, given the option to choose what I’d like “wrong” with me, I can’t come up with anything else I’d like in place. I could have a weight problem, I could have diabetes, I could have depression or other mental issues, I could be infertile… Yes, please, I’ll take the rosacea!!!!