Welcome to Fishy Skin: Living Life with Ichthyosis Vulgaris

Welcome to Fishy Skin, a blog about living life with a skin condition called Ichthyosis Vulgaris.

What the hell is Ichthyosis Vulgaris?

It's referred to as the fish scale disease because that's how it looks, you got flaking all over like dandruff except its on your arms and legs. To some extent on other parts of the body.

You got the lines, baby. The palm of your hands are heavily-lined, you have these criss-crossing lines (thin ones over thick ones intersecting like some traffic accident).

You got these blackheads that if you uproot them you'll find a coil of hair, curled up miserably in the pores. The result is you have red or black bumps on your arms and legs (almost like chicken skin when the feathers are plucked away). The only good side I see is that you end up not so hairy after all or you have no need to shave throughout your life).

But for a more precise medical definition, go to this site PubMed Health or the Mayo Clinic

Come to think of it, perhaps I was mermaid in a past life and all those fishy scales had to carry over into the next life... this one. Growing up I thought it was some cosmic cruel joke, but you eventually learn to deal with the facts that its all tough luck based on genetics.