In January my dermatologist prescribed Imiquimod – a sun damage cream apparently used by Eskimos – and told me to apply it to my face for three weeks and then come back in two months.
My reaction was quite dramatic – an outbreak of red welts on my forehead, a strip of fiery skin by my left eye – though not as bad as some people’s, whose pictures I had gawked at on the Internet. I took a few rare (in both senses of the word) selfies to show my doctor on my next visit.
It came this week. Shortly after he walked into the examination room, I told him I had some photos to show him.
“Oh yeah?” he said. “Have you been someplace interesting?”
