Oops...That's Going to Leave a Mark
By Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (118442)
Gainesville, Florida
March 22, 2021 7:25pm CST
My son went kayaking with his friend over the weekend. On a cloudy day. And didn't put on any sunscreen. And now's he's paying the price. The sun's rays will get you, even on cloudy days. I hope he learned his lesson. He's going to be feeling this one for quite a while. I almost feel sorry for him. lol
Have you ever gotten sunburned really bad?
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
Me too. But usually only mildly. This kid is going to blister soon and peel all over. He's in for a rough week. And sadly for him, it's spring break for him this week, and he's going to be hurting too badly to do anything.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@TheHorse He's got plenty of girls chasing him. Not sure if any have caught him yet though.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc I wish him "hot" 17-year-olds feeling his pain and giving him gentle kisses right on the lips. Unless he's like me and more into sports than girls.
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@kobesbuddy (74553)
• East Tawas, Michigan
23 Mar 21
I've been badly sunburned, it's miserable! Why? I didn't use any sunscreen! 
I hope your son is feeling better, real soon:) Vinegar works to ease that pain.
I hope your son is feeling better, real soon:) Vinegar works to ease that pain.3 people like this
@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
His mom has lots of aloe growing at her house, so he has been breaking off pieces of the aloe plants and rubbing it all over his legs. It's not going to stop the blistering and peeling, but it will help relieve some of the itching and pain.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@kobesbuddy I have some gel here at my house that has a numbing agent in it, works really well, but with me having Covid I can't give it to my son to use. I don't want to take any chances whatsoever of giving him the virus.
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@kobesbuddy (74553)
• East Tawas, Michigan
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc I hope the aloe works on his sunburn, to ease that pain. Sleeping is the worst part or should I say, trying to sleep? Even covering with a sheet hurts.
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@kaylachan (57635)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Mar 21
When iI was young, but now I know my limits.
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@kaylachan (57635)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc I've learned I can't be outdoors in the heat longer than an hour, two at most before my heat intolerance kicks in. My amrms and legs are pretty dark from all the years living under the florida sun.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@kaylachan Even after living my entire life here in Florida, I have never developed a tolerance to the heat. I, too, can only stand being outside for maybe 2 hours at a time. I sweat profusely in the heat and lose hydration quickly if I stay out too long.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
Well, he's young, so he's still learning his limits. I, too, now know my limits. If I am going to be outside for any extended period of time, I always make sure to put on sunscreen.
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@RasmaSandra (73407)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Mar 21
I have had bad sunburns and used cold sour cream right away. Now I cannot tolerate that hot sun so when it gets hot in the summertime I always find shady spots to sit in,
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@RasmaSandra (73407)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc I know that well from past experience.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
In defense of my son, he was out kayaking on a chilly, cloudy day. He didn't think he would get sunburned through the thick clouds. But guess what, even on cloudy days one can get sunburned!
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@RasmaSandra Me too, unfortunately.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
I'm sure it's very painful for him, but I'm also sure he's learned his lesson.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@noni1959 I can certainly suggest that to him.
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@noni1959 (9886)
• United States
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc It looks so painful. An oatmeal bath might help him.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
Those sunburns can creep up and get you at any time if you're not careful. We sometimes let down our guard a little bit when we already have a nice base tan.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@DianneN I'm doing okay, not great. I still have this stupid lingering cough. I think If I could shake this cough that I would be doing much better.
How was Vermont?
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@DianneN (246720)
• United States
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc Sigh.....I should know better. I had lunch in someone’s garden in Florida and burnt to a crisp afterwards. Your son must be in agony.
How are you doing? I remember asking you, but took off for Vermont.
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@kareng (54665)
• United States
24 Mar 21
@moffittjc I think he will remember that going forward into the summer!
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
24 Mar 21
@kareng He'll definitely be wearing lots of sunscreen this summer. He'll be working alongside his uncle as an electrician's helper, meaning he'll be outside quite a bit.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
24 Mar 21
He is definitely feeling it right now. He told me last night that it was starting to itch really bad all over his legs. Which means he is going to start peeling soon.
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@LadyDuck (458022)
• Switzerland
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc My worst experience in Puerto Rico, the ocean was so warm I played in and out all the afternoon.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@LadyDuck That's funny that you mentioned Puerto Rico. My sunburn occurred on the ship on the way to Puerto Rico, and I was in so much pain that I didn't even leave the ship to go explore San Juan when we got there.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
I got severely sunburned on a cruise ship once, down in the Caribbean. It was not a pleasant trip.
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@rakski (112925)
• Philippines
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc for sure, he can put aloe vera gel on it
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@rakski He's been breaking off pieces of the aloe vera plant and rubbing the gel on his sunburn. He says it helps tremendously.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
Yes, he has a very bad sunburn. He's going to be in some pain for quite a while until it heals.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@TheHorse He's been breaking off pieces of aloe plant and rubbing it all over his legs; he says that has been helping tremendously.
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@TheHorse (205716)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc I hope he ices his burns and learns an important lesson! Yes, a cloud tan is real.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
24 Mar 21
Speaking of driver's ed, my son went and got his driver's license today. I told him that now makes him official! lol Now he plans to work all summer with his uncle to save up enough money to buy his first car.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
25 Mar 21
@just4him He tends to be a spender and not a saver, so it will be interesting to see how he manages his money this summer. I have been talking to him over the past few months about setting savings goals, now we'll see if he is disciplined enough to follow through. I guess it will all depend on how bad he really wants a car.
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@just4him (306110)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
25 Mar 21
@moffittjc That's great! Congratulations to him.
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@Hannihar (129453)
• Israel
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc
Yes, I have Jeff and it is no picnic. It hurts for a while and then tans. I hope he will remember from now on to wear sunscreen. Maybe he thought if it is cloudy one does not get sunburned.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
He knew that you could still get burned even on a cloudy day, he just wasn't thinking. I hope he learned his lesson.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@Hannihar I'm going to remind him to put sunscreen on. So much that he gets tired of hearing me nag about it.
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@Hannihar (129453)
• Israel
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc
I see and I hope he learned his lesson too. I guess you will know next time it is a cloudy day whether he puts sunscreen on or not.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
26 Mar 21
That's pretty bad if they let you delay shipping out until a couple of weeks later!
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@porwest (78761)
• United States
28 Mar 21
@moffittjc Not only that, but I was supposed to be quartermaster, which in the Navy is navigations. It would been a good gig. I wound up going in as a ship's servicemen. They run the ship's stores, vending machines, and laundry, and some are also barbers. I didn't do the barber thing. But I did run the laundry and a ship's store.
I think if I would have went in as a QM I might have opted to stay in.
@porwest (78761)
• United States
28 Mar 21
@moffittjc Not only that, but I was supposed to be quartermaster, which in the Navy is navigations. It would have been a good gig. I wound up going in as a ship's servicemen. They run the ship's stores, vending machines, and laundry, and some are also barbers. I didn't do the barber thing. But I did run the laundry and a ship's store.
I think if I would have went in as a QM I might have opted to stay in.
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@Fa_Maverick (9458)
• Australia
7 Apr 21
Yes, while I was doing my first catalogue delivery. It hurt so bad 3':
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
7 Apr 21
Where were you sunburned the most when that happened to you?
I got a sunburn on my neck this past Sunday when I was at Disney World.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
8 Apr 21
@Fa_Maverick I hate when I'm out and about and end up getting sunburned on my legs, arms and neck. If I'm going to work on my tan, I want it to be even all over, not just on the parts of my body that isn't covered with clothes!
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@much2say (53959)
• Los Angeles, California
25 Mar 21
@moffittjc It's like one or the other color got painted on 
. Maybe next time if he wears long pants and let his feet get burned, it'll even out .
. Maybe next time if he wears long pants and let his feet get burned, it'll even out .1 person likes this
@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
I couldn't help but laugh when I saw his pale white feet contrasting against his burnt legs.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
25 Mar 21
@much2say That's exactly what I told him, to wear long pants next time, and no shoes, so that he can even out his tan.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
22 Apr 21
OUCH!
Yes, I have. Almost every time I go outside I get a sunburn. Even when I'm wearing sunscreen. (Someone once thought I was lying about how easy it is for me to get sunburned, so while we sat talking on break one day, I sat by the window with the shades drawn. There was only a thin line of sunshine falling on our table, so I put my forearm into the strip and held it steady while we had our break. When break was over, he couldn't believe that I had a thin strip of sunburn on my forearm.)
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
22 Apr 21
@moffittjc No, the doctors told me to stay out of the sun as much as possible after they removed the skin cancer. They said it's possible for me to get skin cancer again if I get too much sun.
I just told someone else that I am sprouting fangs but not to tell Pretty because she'll blame vanny for turning me into a vampire. 
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
22 Apr 21
That just means you need to get out in the sun more! Are you sure you’re not a vampire like Vanny?
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@MarshaMusselman (38652)
• Midland, Michigan
26 Mar 21
Yes and always on cloudy days when none of us expect it even if we take our sunscreen.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
26 Mar 21
@MarshaMusselman Well, I do try to make sure I don't miss any comments in a thread, because like you said, it can make it hard to understand the rest of the convo.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
26 Mar 21
You are right. We always seem to let our guard down on cloudy days, even though we often know better.
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@MarshaMusselman (38652)
• Midland, Michigan
26 Mar 21
@moffittjc you're about the only person here that saw my actual response after seeing a comment I made in another person's response. Often one gets missed which I have a hard time understanding.
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@JESSY3236 (18923)
• United States
23 Mar 21
ouch. Yes. Chris and I laid out on his balcony when he had his apartment here and I got badly sunburned.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
Did you not put on sunscreen, or did you not use enough sunscreen? I always reapply sunscreen about every hour and a half.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
@JESSY3236 And it came back to bite you in the butt, didn't it? LOL
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@JESSY3236 (18923)
• United States
23 Mar 21
@moffittjc On that day I don't think I did put on sunscreen.
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@lovebuglena (43074)
• Staten Island, New York
23 Mar 21
Ouch! That's some real burn and probably hurts like hell. The arms don't seem as burned as the legs, unless that is the way the pic came out. By the way, what size are his feet?
I burned pretty bad when we went on vacation to Washignton, DC a number of years ago, some time in August. I did not think to bring sunscreen there or that I needed it there. That was a mistake. And I think I got burned while walking in Arlington cemetery of all places.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
Yeah, his arms didn't get as burned as his legs, so maybe it all had to do with the angle in which he was sitting in the kayak.
He wears size 11 shoes, which is about where I was when I was his age. I wear size 12, so I'm sure he'll be wearing size 12 shoes in the not-so-distant future.
@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
24 Mar 21
@lovebuglena It sure looks like it, doesn't it? A lot of people guess that. But in all honesty, he's not that big or tall. He's very skinny and lanky, so it makes his feet look bigger than they really are.
@lovebuglena (43074)
• Staten Island, New York
24 Mar 21
@moffittjc I was off then. I was thinking he was maybe a size 13.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
25 Mar 21
@nela13 He says all the pain has gone away, and the itching isn't as bad as it was before. I think he's about to go into the peeling phase.
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@moffittjc (118442)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Mar 21
Yes, he really needs to take better care of his skin now. Especially after a bad sunburn like that.
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@nela13 (55698)
• Portugal
25 Mar 21
@moffittjc is he better now? It hurts a lot.
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