Things have definitely been busy. Sophie has a pretty vile skin problem (I won’t go into what it is, but it’s vile) and the medicines that she’s on are hyping her up something fierce! Every evening (or late afternoon) we have a full blown, inconsolable melt down that ends with her taking a much needed restorative nap. The first day this happened she spent a good 20 mins screaming at my face. Literally. I stayed calm and cool, but it’s so draining, and then to go back downstairs and deal with Xander having a petty meltdown and Beckett have a temper tantrum… it was almost not pretty.
My ears hurt.
My head hurt.
I wanted a nap.
It didn’t happen.
It’s getting better though. Sophie’s much more comfortable now that the skin issue is clearing up. I hate that we’ve found ourselves back on an antibiotic. She went so many years (7) with never having an antibiotic and now we’ve had 3 in just the last few months.
I hate thinking about what that’s doing to her internal flora. The meds she’s on now aren’t causing as much gastric pain as the last one, and she’s been a real trooper taking her meds twice a day and dealing with me swabbing her nose with ointment multiple times a day.
Poor kid.
Now if I could only convince her that tissues work better than sleeves (or shirts, or her brother’s hair)….
