Well, I guess it never left.

It’s not something that just goes away, from what I’ve read.

Which is why I had suspected that I never actually had it in the first place, because I had no symptoms of it over the past few summers.

But cue my first run in the early April sun today and guess what happens?

PMLE symptoms! The itching, the redness, the basketball texture on my forearms. The eruptions. Very reminiscent of…whenever the last time was I had symptoms.

I strongly suspect that this thing has been “dormant” the past few years because a) I have been consistently wearing my long sleeve sun shirt thingy on my summer walks, and b) most of my summer runs have been at like 2 AM where – surprise, surprise – there is no sunlight to trigger the eruptions.

So yeah. I’m assuming that will happen now when I’m out in the sun for a while, at least until my arms “harden” or I start wearing my sun shirt. I guess we’ll see.

Fun times.