Year of the Boar, Third Month, Day 10.

The welts on my.... skin... do not heal as they should.... the skin is tight and inflamed... they bleed and no amount of salve seems to dull the pain. Standing is awful, walking worse and sitting is absolute torture... I feel hot and yet I shiver... I know not what I should do, asking for help would be so humiliating... yet if I do not... could I die from this...? I know not. I am afraid...