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After splashing the final water onto my face from the brass single-hole faucet, I lifted my head to wash away the creamy facial product. Dr. Boucher professionally recommended that Noxzema remove the pimple patch that seemed to sprout on my T-zone. I'm praying to all the Gods that it works. Fingers crossed. My symptoms seem to have gone into overdrive after I was diagnosed with PCOS almost five months ago. Life for me since then has been a living hell.
My menstrual cycles take forever to come, and when they do, it feels and looks like death. My weight has always fluctuated, but recently, it's skyrocketed like a plane during takeoff. My moods have been changing drastically. One moment, I'm happy and want to do jumping jacks; the next, I'm sad and want to curl up in a ball. The worst part about this whole situation is...my acne is never-ending. I've already suffered from small breakouts here and there from puberty, but now it seems that hormonal acne has made an unwanted appearance on my forehead, nose, and chin. My face is now home to a new tenant dodging rent.
If you want to live on me, at least give me some sort of compensation. Damn.
This unexpected crisis has increased the number of strange, elongated stares and judgmental whispers. Because of that, my bathroom breaks during lunch have become much longer. If it weren't for Irish tracking and dragging me out the stall by my ponytails each time, I'd hide in there all day.
I mean, can you blame me?
Using my blurry vision to grasp the white towel on the smooth rectangular-shaped countertop and gently pat my face with it, I could catch the liquid descending from my forehead to my chin before reaching the fuzzy rug. When my sight cleared, I looked at myself in the mirror. Well, as much as I could, the steam from the shower that stuck onto the glass was still trying to disappear. All I could see was the shape of my short frame clothed in an oversized red shirt and the outline of the soft headband in the same color, protecting my edges from curling. Lord knows my hair can't appear anymore homeless. That's why it's in a ponytail.
