Help! I am becoming a prune!

I don't know what the deal is but I am seriously drying up like a raisen! It all started with my feet which did not seem all that strange at first. In the summer I routinely go barefoot and live in sandals. So a little dry heel and calluses are to be expected which disappear in the winter.

However, my feet seemed to be exceptionally dry this fall. In fact, I hated going to sleep barefeet because my feet where so scratchy! They became like crusty dried up toast and the skin started to snag things. Harley managed to find a special foot cream called "Heel Rescue" which has helped somewhat but you have to be religious in using it every night.

Okay so I dealt with the feet and thought it was just age. Then in October I lost the ability to produce tears and recently I have learned that my swallowing difficulties and dry mouth syndrome are the result of decreased saliva production. I dealt with that too and still am.

But now, my hands are getting more dried and callused no matter how much lotion I put on several times a day! I have had dry hands in the winter before but this takes the cake! The skin is so dry that when I straighten my fingers I can feel the stretch of the tight skin. Plus the palms look as though I have soaked them in hydrogen peroxide for hours. They feel like sandpaper and when I apply lotion you can see hundreds of little line from cracks. They are improving at the moment because I just applied lotion for the 10th time or more today (that is not joke or exageration).

Okay I suppose I should do the foot lotion ritual now and get to bed. Have a great week!