Kitty, thanks for the advice. One of my problems is the pinkness and also blueness where the veins show through, but also, there's the skin stretched in a way I can't quite describe. It's kind of like plastic bread bags used to be (maybe some still are, I don't know), where you could stretch the plastic, and at a certain point, it's integrity would break, and you'd have this weak, hanging bit of plastic between the two sides you'd stretched, and it couldn't be put back together again. Maybe sometime I'll get a photo taken (being careful not to show anything that would be censored) and post a pic here to show what I'm talking about.