My Tale of Woe
Okay the reason I can't be a waitress, I'm allergic to the sanitzer that they use on the dishes.
Basically they wash the dishes rinse dunk them in a tub of sanitizer and rinse them one last time before resuing the dishes, but when it gets really busy you have to dunk your hand into the sanitizer to grab a spare bowl rinse it and give the patron their dish. Well, the first day wasn't too bad. My hand got a little numb but it went away, well yesterday it got a whole lot worse and my whole palm was red and burning and I couldn't wash it off with any of the soaps I could find and when I left I was having a harder time breathing. Well today my breathing is almost completely back to normal but my hand still has a dull burning sensation.
So even though I didn't have to go to the hospital or anything serious, I got this feeling that it would get worse as I did this more often. (Plus the fact that I touched the side of my eyelid (tearduct side) AFTER I had washed my hands 20 different times and it swelled up within 5 minutes.) So I'll just add waitressing as a job I can't do for health reasons (this would be the first) because I liked it, I just didn't like the way my body felt after I was done. Which was similar to how I felt after I took a bath with a soap that had a dye additive that I was allergic to.
Oh and in positive news: I finished a pair of socks. I'll post about them tomorrow hopefully.
3 comments:
Yeah- red, burning hand... Not the right job for you! Hopefully it's back to normal soon.
Would wearing non latex gloves help at all?
I'm so sorry it didn't work out!
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