The Hup and Steph Rashup

Posted By Hup | February 21, 2010

Last weekend Stephanie and I headed out the Mavericks Surf Contest in Half Moon Bay with some of our friends and had an awesome time. Little did we know, however, that we were going to be paying one heck of a price for that awesome time. We were going to get a rash.

At some point during the day we (or Frank) walked through something that we weren’t supposed to and by Saturday night I was already seeing a rash starting to move it’s way up my arm. The rash on Stephanie’s neck wasn’t too far behind mine and once our rashes started, they just seemed to take over more and more of our bodies. It wasn’t pretty and it’s taken us two trips to the doctor, three types of cream and oral steroids to get our itchy situation taken care of.

Although we have both been pretty miserable this past week due to our crazy rash attacks, we also somehow found some a lot of  humor in the situation. As we were moving into some more serious treatment, we both decided that we should document this hopefully rare moment in our relationship, so we did what we always do– we made a video about it. :)

I call the video the world’s first ‘rashup’, which is a play on words for a mashup, which have become very popular in the online video space these days. Take a look at the video and some pics that I took of our out-of-control rashes below and be sure to be careful the next time that you’re walking through a bunch of weeds. Believe me when I say that you definitely don’t want to get what we got, even if it was pretty funny.


This whole rash thing really freaked me out. And it itched…BAD.

It was looking bad and it was only spreading more and more. Not good.

A close-up of the nastiness.

I had to add like 15 minutes to my prep time just to put on Cortizone cream.

Another spot that magically appeared on my hip. Awesome.


Stephanie’s crazy neck-rash-thing. She wanted to scratch her neck off.

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    1. Doug McLarty on February 23rd, 2010 5:59 pm

      I would like to talk to you. We were also at Half Moon Bay, with our daughter. She (and only her) broke out in such a rash she was hospitalized Saturday night. Myself and my wife were ok.
      We thought it was a food allergy (as she has a few typical allergies), but she has never reacted this bad, with such a severe rash, and it continued, until her lips swelled, and her tongue.
      It was serious and we called 911.
      Please email this address if you are willing to share info. This is serious, no jokes.

    What do you want to tell us, hmmm?