This is quite worrisome. She's always been one of my favorite starlets, and now she's broken out in a strange rash. Any guesses as to what is causing this?
From her blog:
http://aurorasnow.com/blog.php?post=16"I am feeling cursed right about now…maybe that’s too dramatic, but sometimes that’s just the way feelings are. Ideally I’m not being realistic. From the beginning shall we?
Thursday, December 2nd I wake up in my lovely beachfront Florida hotel room to find weird bumps all over my calves. As the day progresses so do these bumps, which I began to refer to as a “rash.”
By that evening my knees are aching, and the rash is covering the lower half of my body from the ankles to the rear. Friday morning I wake up and head to the airport, by this time my left knee is so swollen any sort of movement is oddly painful. Such an obvious sore sight everyone at the airport helped make my transportation between terminals a little easier. At both layovers I develop a weird achy pain in my right ankle, but of course didn’t bother to look at it. I get home late Friday night, change into pajamas and almost have a fit- what use to be my right ankle had magically transformed itself into a giant purple marshmallow all squishy-like and swollen.
You know how a marshmallow looks when you squeeze it in between your thumb and your first finger and it sort of puffs out? Yeah? Well, that’s exactly how my ankle looked. Definitely freaked out at that point and debated whether or not I should go to the emergency room or just wait the eight hours until my doctor could see me. I opted to wait. Perfectly logical, to go to an emergency room without gushing blood means sitting in the waiting room for six to eight hours before anyone sees you. And then when someone does finally “see” you, it means another hour or two waiting in your hospital gown until a doctor can come skim your chart and order a bunch of useless tests. For those reasons and more…I waited….
Saturday morning, my ankle was still swollen, and unfortunately it was my right ankle so I couldn’t exactly drive myself to the doctor. My bestfriend swooped in and saved the day by driving. Doctor wasn’t overly helpful, he drew some blood said he’d run some tests, gave me shots and prescribed me cortisone pills, two different types of cream (one for morning, one for evening) and an antibiotic just to be safe. Felt like we were treating everything. A few days later it was obvious that the treatment wasn’t working. All the tests he ran came back fine. The doctor’s best guess: That I was bit by bugs in Florida and was having a severe allergic reaction. Sure. Kind of makes sense. Kind of.
Due to this rash I lost out on playing Catwoman, a role I’d been eagerly awaiting. I am still to this day, extremely bummed out about not being in the Justice League spoof. Not to mention all the other work I had to cancel…that one role hurt the most. I keep telling myself it all happens for a reason, but when I look back on this year, or even the year before that…I really start to wonder if that’s true. Just for the sake of sanity, I’ll keep lying to myself and saying its true- it all happens for a reason. Whatever that reason may be I sure would like to know now. It would make the last two years a little easier to swallow.
Fast forward to today (technically yesterday it is now 1:00am), after not working all month, and even staying away from the gym for fear that sweating would somehow make this unknown rash worse….here it is again the dreaded rash.
This morning my agent called to check on me. I was thrilled to tell him I was good to go. I could work-finally! So he booked my week right before the holidays…it was going to be great. I was so excited and felt the rash had finally faded out of my system, there were only a few slight scars left on my legs, but hardly anything compared to what it had been a few weeks ago. So liberating to feel normal again I celebrated by going to the gym. Ran three miles on the treadmill; I was pumped , happy even.
I changed and showered at the gym, didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. Came home, made dinner (mixed vegetables w/melted goat cheese) and settled in for the evening. Had an argument with the bestfriend over something very silly, which I was quick to point out and from there we were able to resolve it.
Changed into pajamas and WHAM! The sight of the rash is unmistakable. ….it’s baaaaaack….
So the question now is why? Why is it back? Why is it determined to ruin my life? Is it my fault for going to the gym and running? Is it stress related? NO. Its not stress related, highly unlikely, however what is far more likely is that there is some sort of toxin in my system and the running caused it to push through my skin; which means I never got rid of IT, whatever the heck IT is….
Now what? I slathered more prescription cream on it, since I still have that. It’s not helping yet. I dread having to call my agent, but what I dread more is the thought of canceling work. Is it crazy to want to where stockings and cover it up so I can work anyway?
Pretty sure it’s not contagious. If it were contagious I would have given it to my roommate, or family by now… of course no bodily fluids were exchanged and honestly, I don’t even know what this is, neither does my doctor, so how do I really know I can’t give it to anyone? Sometimes I hate having a conscience. So I probably cannot work….
Maybe I should see how it looks in the morning? Having one of those moments when you can either laugh or cry. As much as I want to cry, I cannot help but laugh. It’s tragic and yet deeply, disturbingly funny. Every time I have said to myself “its ok,it could be worse” you know what happens…it gets worse. All year I have said that, it could be worse, that funny man upstairs sure does have a sense of humor…
Strange thing about it- it looks like chickenpox but isn’t.
It doesn’t itch at all, and causes my legs to swell in weird places, not always around the joints as you’d expect though it certainly swells there too. So far nothing is swollen tonight, just a little tender, and ugly looking. Let’s see how I wake up tomorrow…what will be swollen next I wonder…."
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