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jacey.boldart in Cross Culture • last year

Now I want a parasol!

That is interesting, because I don't have a mental picture of men carrying parasols on a sunny day. I think it's a fine idea, especially with the changes in weather conditions as you say.

Do the women have lots of different ones to go with their various outfits? Just curious.

This summer, for some reason, I have become very sensitive to the sun. In no time at all it will break my skin out in a rash and itch for 3 days. Yikes! ...right? I do believe it has something to do with the medications I am currently taking as I can figure nothing else out at this time. I wear a very strong sun block and some arm protection sleeves even when I will mostly be driving and not taking long walks in the sun. There was some event I thought about attending and then the thought that I would need to be walking out in the sun more than normal to attend came to my mind. Since it is not a "thing" here, carrying a parasol never crossed my mind, but might be a possible solution. Maybe I'll start a trend.:)

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livinguktaiwan last year

The same happened to me this summer as well, I started to get heat rashes and itchy spots after being out in the sun. It's never happened to me before. I'm not on any medication, and never use sunblock ( yes, I know I should 😔). Since then, I've been very conscious of protecting myself from the sun, as I'm worried it might get worse. Maybe the parasol and sun protection sleeves is the way to go next.

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jacey.boldart last year

It seems as I get older, some of the smallest things have gotten more complicated. I need to do more things to protect more things before I can leave the house and even in the morning just getting out of bed to start the day. It's quite annoying! I'd like to have my life back when I could just jump and and take off. I really don't like all the fussing I am beginning to have to do to just get through a regular day. At least I can still laugh about it, that's a good sign.

I don't like using sunblock in general because I don't like putting chemicals on my skin, but unfortunately, it may be the lesser of the evils. I'm concerned if my skin is reacting like that, then it might cause me to be more susceptible to skin cancers or the such (although I don't know that to be true really) ...since it seems my skin is not protecting me like it has done the rest of my life. It has not been my style to lay out in the sun in the summers, but just doing normal things, working in flowers and other things in the yard and the such, my skin had lightly tanned nicely, so I never worried with it.

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dbooster last year

Do the women have lots of different ones to go with their various outfits?

But of course 😃 They have become fashion accessories to some degree. Women here also wear long gloves or sleeves to keep the sun off their arms. All in all they seem to wear even more in summer than winter. With more fashionable women, all of it has to match!

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jacey.boldart last year

I know people sometimes wear long sleeves in the summer when they are out in the sun daily, but quite honestly, the thought of wearing sleeves when it is hot was a terrible thought to me and now here I am needing too. Something is just very wrong about that! :)

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