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I found buried treasure the other day, and now my hands no longer bleed. Goes like this: 18 months ago, when DB was discharged from hospital, the nurses kindly gave us an open but nearly full box of nitrile gloves to help me for changing his dressings...
...as they knew about my grease phobia. But they were huge (for work, I wear S in winter, M in summer), so couldn't work in them and had to continue using my cheap disposables for DB.s dressings. I stored them away and thought nowt more of it...
...and having determined that no one I knew wanted them, was even considering ditching them a couple of months ago. Now then, being of A Certain Age and thus having lost skin elasticity, for the past few years I've suffered badly from...
...cracked and bleeding knuckles in autumn/winter, especially as a result of washing up ungloved. Cut to the Time of Plague, and I stopped gloving because of general glove shortages, so my knuckles had become a war zone. Now, for those of you...
...who might be thinking 'oh but why doesn't she moisturise?', refer back to the second tweet in this thread o_0 So I was at my wits' end - the pain was enough to wake me in the night - until I suddenly recalled the nitrile gloves and dug them out.
And guess what? Something medical personnel no doubt know, but I never did: unlike cheap disposables, nitrile gloves are properly waterproof. RESULT! I now have happy, healed hands and am on my fourth reuse of one pair of gloves. All hail nitrile!
