Bonding Thoughts

You know you have EB when...

1. You can hear scissors cutting a half mile away. (Kim)
   
   
2. "Popping blisters" is part of your everyday vocabulary. (Kim)
   
   
3. On personnel forms, you list "tape" as a drug allergy. (Kim)
   
   
4. Your significant other looks at the bed, shrugs, points, & says "scabbies" and thinks nothing of it. (Kim)
   
   
5. Gauze is on your travel packing list, right next to "new Victoria's Secret underwear." (Kim)
   
   
6. You have a "word" during sex (mine is MOVE) when a hand winds up in a wrong/bad place, i.e., on top of a blister on your back. (Kim)
   
   
7. When you're done, you're DONE. (Kim)
   
   
8. A dirty four letter word is HEAT. (Sue C.)
   
   
9. All of those shoes that felt so good in the shoe store end up being part of a collection that would rival that of Imelda Marcos's except that now you can't wear any of them because they really aren't that comfortable. (Sue C)
   
   
10. People think you're insensitive cause whenever they get a 'nasty' graze you just glance at it and ask "What's the problem?" (Deidre)
    
    
11. Someone asks you for a Band-aid and you look at them like they have 6 heads. You don't even have any in the house! (Kim)
    
    
12. You buy your significant other a big ole box of 250 Band-aids at the discount store, bring it home, and declare that these should last him a lifetime (or at least 10 years). (Kim)
    
    
13. Forgetting to slap a Mepilex Borders pad on your thigh in the summer when the blood blisters are rampant... and wearing any color but black pants... and you bought them 2 days ago. (Kim)
    
    
14. Scratching a small area suddenly turns into a full body rub down. (Rachael)
    
    
15. You're grateful to have only 3 finger nails, just enough to provide relief for some serious itching. (Sue C)
    
    
16. Your kids wonder why they do not have boo-boos. (Jill)
    
    
17. Everyone has been finished with dinner for an hour except you. (Jill)
    
    
18. The pool was full unitl you stepped in. (Jill)
    
    
19. The biggest compliment a stranger or loved one can give you is that you smell good. (Kim)
    
    
20. You approach the checkout lady at Walgreens with:
    6 boxes of Kleenex
    3 rolls of gauze
    1 package of needles
    4 boxes of Tefla pads
    1 pair of scissors
    
    ...and a smile. (Emily)
    
    
21. Going into Michael's craft store and taking EVERY SINGLE pair of stork/embroidery scissors out of the pack and examining the tips to see if they could possibly be pointy and sharp enough for me. Those damned things are notorious for having flattened points, and it drives me crazy... (Kim)
    
    
22. I wish my parents bought "Johnson & Johnson" stock when I was born. (Sandra)
    
    
23. One blister finely gets healed, I get 2 more in it's place. (Sandra)
    
    
24. On Halloween people tell you, you've done a good make-up job with your scars and blisters. (Sandra)
    
    
25. The two constant questions, have you been burned? -Or- Have you been in an accident? (Sandra)
    
    
26. Your husband tells you that the cat must have been in another fight because there is drops of blood on the door threshold, until you point out that it is on the door knob too, and unless the cat is smarter than you think it's probably just yours. (Tami)
    
    
27. NBM = New Boyfriend Mouth (Kim)
    
    
28. Sometimes you have to take breaks from playing video games to give your thumb a chance to heal from the blister you developed. (Kim)
    
    
29. You look like a hunchback when you walk around in the dark - bending forward to make sure that if you do walk into something, your shins don't hit it first. (Dee)
    
    
30. When your friends and family can tell by the size of the waste basket (and maybe how full it is, or how often you take out the trash...) what's going on for you skinwise these days. (Malin)
    
    
31. ...or, if nothing else, it makes your neighbors wonder how on earth you create so much trash in so little time! (Kim)
    
    
32. Going to the supermarket and buying all the food high in fat (calories) while everyone else is getting the fat free stuff. (Kylie)