Please can you diagnose Ds's mysterious Zombification? Or at least what the hell it ACTUALLY is?

[HoneyDragon]

Walked in on Ds in the bath and went "aaaaargh, what have you done to your back!"

Only to be met by bemusement and spinning around by ds to try and see his own back.

It wasn't there this morning, no one has hurt or scratched him. It does not hurt or itch. There are no puncture marks indicating bites.

The only foreign body that has come into contact with his skin is fresh fallen snow when they were shoving it down their collars . But Ds is not mince so I don't think it's freezer burn.

I am totally baffled.

Ds is praying he will wake up a Zombie

Any ideas?

Its over quite a large area too

It looks like scratches to me so I am not help at all.

You're welcome.

He is insistent that no one or no thing has touched him it looks like deep scratches, welt where the bleeding is.

He can't feel any pain I have poked him repeatedly

Maybe there was bugs in the snow. They were probably prehistoric.

You're welcome too.

Nothing useful to add but impressed by the inserting photos thing, is that new?

It's been here a little while. It's a special picture topic. Mostly used for pretty things.

Look Mnetters, I need theories. Can you imagine asking a GP what it is? They'll think I flay him!

Immac?

::flees::

In all seriousness, it looks a bit like the eczema. Sometimes my son's sort of looks like that.

Coco, just popped up to tell ds your theory. He's just as happy to wake up a dinosaur as a zombie.

Ok thanks :)

What I think is that there was something in the snow that got shoved down there, small stones, maybe twigs.

As the snow froze the skin a bit he didn't feel the scratches.

~Looks like scratch marks, it really does.

But can eczema simply start one day out of no where?

I am prepared to get out the Immac if it was a werewolf.

It looks exactly like he's been scratched. More like a dog scratch.

Zombie has never had spots that look like that. She thinks dinosaur is more likely.

:: helpful not ::

Winter bees?

I would have to agree with JKSLtd. Something was in the snow and scratched him.

Put some stuff on it, you know, anti-germ stuff. And some plasters.

I have sprayed him and left it uncovered to go scabby.

It was totally fresh snow. I am leaning toward a snow related injury, but there wasn't anything in the snow.

So in order of scenarios

Snow
Dinosauritus
Zombification

Anything obvious, sorry.

I vote Dinosauritus. For sure. He'll be 100 tons by morning. And green.

Oh good grief, do the Sporners know the picture topic exists?
It may lift the klaxon to a whole new level...

Looks like carpet burns, but not sure you can get that from snow. It also looks like the marks I had when attacked by a goose as a child.

Snow geese?

Was he rough-housing with Hully by any chance?

I used to end up with those when Kes used to jump all over me.

Nutty. I react to dog scratches like that, well like most people do, I don't think he and the dog have been in the same room at all today. She's been too busy trying to scare off the snow by barking at it