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Ugh you guys...

I need some prayers this morning. I am just shattered at how yucky Shelby's bottom is right now. As I type, I tear up...I hate that. She has like an open wound on her hemangioma, and this morning she woke up at 6 am crying, and I knew she had pooped, and I knew what I was about to do was going to make her, not cry, but scream. I have to try and "gently" wipe off poop that is stuck to her butt and then put this antibiotic cream over her sore, and then wipe desitin all over her butt. The tricky part is is that I have to spread her little butt cheeks apart in the crevice where her sore is, and this just send her into hysterics. Then I begin to cry, so I have a hard time seeing where I am putting this stuff. She starts to twist and turn and kick around so I have to keep trying to open her little cheeks up again, which send her into another fit....

You get the picture.

It is horrible. Even after I picked her up she still was crying and trying to suck her thumb to soothe herself, but it took her a few moments to collect herself again. I nursed her and laid her back down, and she did fall asleep.

So now I'm just thinking about what I should do. I think what I am going to do is keep her diaper off for most of the day...

It's hard to celebrate the good news of her mark just being an infantile hemangioma when she's sreaming so much over the pain of her ulcerated wound that she is on top of it. 3 more days of the antibiotics... and then hopefully this nightmare will be over.

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Ehlan said…
poor babe and mama, lots of prayers!
February 10, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Anonymous said…
I'm so sorry Meg...my heart hurts thinking how hard that must be, obviously not only for her, but for YOU.

Ilove when you do these, so I'm going to give you one ("A word for the day")
Perseverance: steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., esp. in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
February 10, 2009 at 12:05 PM
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