My Life on TV

Are you watching The Pitt? It’s Noah Wyle’s medical show of an ER in a Pittsburgh hospital. We are in the second season of the show. Each season is 24 hours in the life of the ER, one hour at a time.

This week’s episode had a man come in the ER at the end of the hour with a terrible rash. The two student doctors that saw him were concerned he had some terrible communicable disease, but were not sure where to start to figure it out.

A different student doctor spoke to the man and asked what he had been doing before he got the rash. He was squeezing limes outside in the sun, to make margaritas. That doctor correctly diagnosed he had Phyto/Photo dermatitis. This is what I have. I can not squeeze lemons or limes because I get a terrible rash. Most no one has ever heard of this problem. I have been educating people one at a time time when I ask them to squeeze my lemon.

I can’t wait until next week’s episode to see how they treat this man beyond the steroids they already mentioned. I hope that everyone learns how horrible this skin condition can be and will not look at me strangely when I ask for help. At last Phyto/Photo dermatitis is getting it’s hour in the sun.