Now that it's such nice weather, Alex is wearing sleeveless shirts and shorts. I forget about all of Alex's skin issues until we go out in public, and now that he's showing more skin, people feel the need to bring it to my attention. I am so used to him having eczema patches and bruises and bandaids and scratches that I barely even notice them anymore. Not only does he have the eczema trouble, but he's also a walking booboo. I swear he can't go more than 10 minutes without getting a bruise or a scraped knee these days. The other day we were at the park and another mother came up to me and pretty much gave me the third degree (which I don't really mind, I mean, he was playing with her son and he could very well have some contaigous skin eating disease for all she knew)
"What are those sores on his legs?"
"Oh, that's just eczema, he's had trouble with it all his life"
"And the bandaid on his arm?"
"Another eczema patch that he scratched and it got irritated, so I put antibiotic on it with a bandaid so it doesn't get infected"
"I see he's got another bandaid on his knee"
"Yea, he was out getting the mail with his daddy and was running along behind him and tripped and fell and scraped his knee"
"Is that where the bruises on his legs came from?"
"No, he seems to always have bruises on his shins. I think it's from the way he sits on the wooden stool in the kitchen"
"Is that a bruise on his shoulder?"
"No, that's a hemangioma. He's had that since birth, though when he was born it was dark purple and really puffy. It's gone down quite a bit and is almost the color of his skin now. The doctors think it will be gone by the time he's ten or so."
"And his thumb and wrist look like they're sore, is that eczema too?"
"Well, that patch on his wrist is eczema, but his thumb is just chapped from him being a big time thumb sucker, and before you ask, that's why his chin is chapped because he's constantly drooling with his thumb in his mouth."
"Sounds like the poor little guy has a lot of skin issues to deal with"
"Yea, but the worst is the leoprosy"
"What?!"
"I'm just kidding"
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