Just Julia: A short story about eczema

by Cara Ward

‘I just need one day of not being in this body.’

Julia Ross is a twenty-something woman (barely) living with eczema.
Julia Ross has been told not to scratch.
Julia Ross has been told to use coconut oil.
Julia Ross has been told it’s never going to get better.
Julia Ross has come to the end.

Can Julia Ross reclaim her identity from her skin or has she finally given up?

Based on the author’s own experience with eczema, this short story hits home on exactly what it's like to live with a condition most people believe is only skin deep.

From the author of Curing my Incurable Eczema.

33 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2021

About the author

Cara started writing in 2013 after falling in love with it whilst housebound from the iatrogenic condition, Topical Steroid Addiction, which she has since made a full recovery from. She is now an advocate for the relatively unknown condition which affects thousands of people around the world. Cara also has a popular blog about her skin journey which can be found here: www.tswcara.blogspot.com.

In December 2017, she released the book, Curing my Incurable Eczema, about her battle with Topical Steroid Addiction, which reached the top five in the dermatology book charts on Amazon. In April 2019, she released the short story, Just Julia, based on her own experience of living with eczema. Her first collection of short stories, Thirty-Minute Tales, was released in September 2021.

Between late 2014 and early 2018, Cara wrote the women’s fiction series, Weighting to Live, which was republished in 2022. Around the same time, she also published the standalone short story, Knock Down Ginger, inspired by her experience of being bullied because of the colour of her hair.

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