Personal Narrative: How Much Separation Is Too Much Lotion

How much lotion is too much? In my experience, although I'm not a top score student contender, I say I would be in top the 99th percentile in lotion depletion. As a child, I was plagued with severe eczema, it covered my whole body like a lethal venom coursing through my skin. My face was flakier than the most exquisite of artisan made pastries, my arms like sleeves of scaly snake hide, and my entire body was a graveyard of dead skin. I essentially lived as a walking stick of butter because I remember every morning before school my mother would strip me down and slather heaps of sticky Vaseline all over my body. Uncomfortable couldn't even begin to explain the inconveniences this caused and moreover, my classmates would constantly ask, "Why are you so shiny?" …show more content…
Naturally, my parents told me that as I grow up my eczema would go away and get better - - au contraire. In the fourth grade, I contracted a type of dermal herpes due to my weak immune system and soon, a disease that I could barely even pronounce was taking away every ounce of my strength. This happened twice in my life but I later recovered and became more determined to find new ways to effectively treat my condition. My skin tells a story about my life and struggles but this is only one layer of me and I believe that the University of Washington is full of individuals layered with other unique experiences. I want to exchange these stories that define who we are, to be able to learn new ideas and culture as individuals we can never