How one self-proclaimed ‘creative scientist’ cured her hyperkeratosis
BY: Geena Lee
Having thick skin is usually seen as a good thing. But for Jacqueline R. Telfer, it was a nightmare.
Around the age of six, Telfer started noticing that something was “wrong” with her skin when her hands, feet and parts of her face became much colder than other areas of her body. She was soon diagnosed with Hyper Palmo-plantar Keratosis Keratoderma, a disease that causes an excessive accumulation of keratin in the outer layers of the skin — making it thick, scaly …