Well, even with high hopes for the day, my patience wore thin very quickly, as did Ryder's and we didnt have a great day. It started off on a bad note because Ryder and I are both fighting a cold. He woke at 6:30am so I brought him into my bed for an extra hour or so, and I woke to him kicking me in the back and sides,to the point it hurt. When I asked him to stop he did it more and then cried, and continued to cry, because he realised I was not happy.
But we did start tiny tumblers today, Ryder's second extracuricular group activity! Knowing the smells from other people in an enclosed space could bother him, I decided it was not an option to skip bath this morning to save time, but when I went to run the tub, the water was brown and disgusting. So I lathered him in his 4 different creams, dug to find the most comfortable, 100% cotton clothes, that wouldn't fall off his bum I could find (which is quite a task since most jogging pants are 60% cotton, 40% polyester, which is a nightmare for eczema) and we were off. He scratched most of the way there, and only the distraction of his best friend Ky kept him temporarily busy.
Ryder was nervous at first, and as we did a circle time warm up he clung to me like glue. He finally let me set him down and we began to enjoy the class, which is only a half hour in length anyway, and soon after, the scratching started again. His forehead was flaking off, his cheeks were bright red and looked raw, and, as I realised to late, he started to sweat, which of course if I had of thought in advance I may not have registered him, as sweating gives him eczema!
He had me pull him off to the side twice, both times applying vaseline to seperate areas, hoping it would help us long enough to get through the class. Once they pulled out the ribbons Ryder was well distracted, and then we had banana muffins for snack, which are his new favorite, so there was a short time span of peace!
We had to skip out on tobboganing with friends so we could go to Grams house for a bath,and we had a fight to eat lunch, which he didn't, then we rushed home for nap, because the more tired Ryder is, the more he scratches, which in turn releases histamines, which makes him more itchy, which gives him more eczema............ He had a not so long nap, and when he woke he was grumpy as a bear. When Ryder is grumpy,or angry, aggitated, frustrated, sad or any other emotion out there, his release is to scratch, so imagine the circles we were running in today. We decided after some play to finally eat our lunch(it was 3:30pm by this time) so he could have another banana muffin and go buy a second cool mist humidifyer for the livingroom, with the hope that it will help clear up the eczema on his face.
Our outting took us to walmart, where the cashier commented that he had a rash. When I explained what it was she, like anyone else I talk to it seems, told me she used to have it, not as bad, when she was a kid. She told me about utter cream, the real stuff for cows from the co-op, which is one cream I haven't tried, so I am very interested to see how it works! Our next stop was Home Hardware, and a nice man in the parking lot saw I was struggling to carry the humidifyer box, 2 boxes of filters and a 2 yr old,so he offered to help. He recognised Ryder's eczema right away and was giving me helpful, (although already tried),suggestions, and said he grew out of it aswell. Thank you to this gentleman who helped me, when I didn't think I needed it. Ryder and I talked about you on the way home and how people should always go out of their way to help others when they can.
We stopped at home to grab some things and back over to Grams for tonight's bath, as our water issue is fixed, but will take a few days to be able to bath in. Gram made dinner for us, with only a few moments notice, and we enjoyed the visit, however the scratching continued through dinner, after bath and the entire way home, and as I sit here typing this I can hear Ryder scratching from his bedroom, and occassionally crying. I realise now, as well, that I didn't file his nails, which I do every single night, and I know that the result will be deep scratches, blood and scabs by morning.
I am ending tonight with positive prayers that Ryder will go to sleep soon, and by tommorro his skin will feel relief, and the dizzy spells I seem to be having will have passed!
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