This is just a backdated post to say WHEN I first noticed a little itchy mark on my left shoulder which I later discovered was the beginnings of the Pemphigus. I’m doing it for completeness so the whole story is here on the blog.
It was about the end of November, beginning of December that I gradually realised I kept scratching at my left shoulder every so often. I took my shirt off and looked in the mirror. It looked like it was a little red blistery infection, nothing like a mole – cancer goes through your mind – and I showed it to my wife Sue and put some Savlon on it.
It was coming up to Christmas, and I was busy, so I put off going to the docs until the beginning of January. In that time it hadn’t really become any bigger. She took a look at it and said she thought it was an infection and prescribed some antibiotics, which I was quite happy with. I went back for another course as not only had it not got any better, it had spread and I noticed a couple of marks on my other shoulder and a couple on my chest. At no point in these early stages was I worried. Why would I be? I’d had mild infections in the past, this was just something like that. An annoying rash.
How wrong can you be?
