Sorry I haven't been updating this often enough. Things are still busy, busy around here. Dominick had a Dr. appointment on Friday and we found out that he does have Scabies. The Dr. thought he had it and treated him for it in the hospital, but realized on Friday that he does definitely have scabies and we had to treat the whole family. For those of you unaware, Scabies is a little tiny mite (bug) that lives under the very top layer of skin and causes intense itching. It makes your skin swell up and look like an allergic reaction and is very contagious. If you contact scabies, you usually won't have symptoms for 4-6 weeks, so you can pass it along to others without even knowing you have it for 6 weeks. So, us and the grandparents all had to treat ourselves with a cream, and we had to wash EVERYTHING you could imagine. We even had to steam clean the furniture, because I had slept on the sofa a few days. My parents were here over the weekend to help with this big mess and my dad took all the clothes to a washeteria to wash them so he could wash everything at one time. He had like 6-10 bags of things to wash.
So anyway, the doctor said the scabies is definitely what could be making poor Dominick wake up every hour at night. He said scabies causes an intense itching, and it is even worse at night. So other than that, things are going good. Hopefully we did a good job and the scabies are gone. By the way, he had this when we got him in Guatemala, but we thought it was a rash and some type of allergic reaction.
Oh, one more thing, I finally got Dominick a Halloween costume. I will post pictures of him in it ASAP.
Here's Maw Maw cleaning Dominick's Jumperoo because of the Scabies...YUCK!
Paw Paw took a break from his laundry job to watch a little of his Car Races and rock Dominick. By the way, Dominick loves my dad but still isn't too interested in my husband. I don't understand what the deal is, but that's OK, we know one day he will be following his Dada around everywhere.
Dominick's favorite thing to do, take a bath.
4 comments:
Poor baby. I love the picture of Dominick and his Paw Paw! So precious.
Kate
Oh No!!! Not another car race fanatic. Paw Paw kept saying he hoped Dominick would let him rock him and Dominick sure did let Paw Paw rock him.
Love you,
Maw Maw Dee
poot baby! poor mama! that stinks!You guys hav earned a break!! Hope it is all better soon:)
Julia
Oh my gosh, Lynn! When it rains, it pours, doesn't it? He never stops smiling, though. Such a sweet, sweet little man.
Love Dominick's bathtub.
-Betsy
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