"Doctor said no touch!"

On Monday, I was able to get Josie into the doctors office. What a miracle, I call and get a same day appointment. Brent of course had to take her since I had to work and he was off, but we got her in. Josie has had a chapped chin since before Thanksgiving. Brent and I think it is from sleeping with her pacifier. Good thing Santa will be coming soon to help us out with that issue. I have been putting lotion, neosporin, Brent tried chap stick, and I even purchased all-purpose Desitin to help with the problem. Her chin heeled up for the most part all but one spot. The spot remains bright red. As red as Rudolph's nose and no matter what I do it just simply will not heal. I did not want to get our Christmas card photo taken until it was better. Usually we take the photo over Thanksgiving weekend, but this year with her owie we held off to allow it to heal. I told Brent Monday morning that I was tired of this spot and that I had tried everything and nothing was totally working, so to the doctors I sent them.

They weighed her as they do at every appointment. But that is all that they did was her weight since it was not a well-child visit. Guess how much our little girl weighs? She weighs in at 28 pounds. She sure does not feel like it. When she turned 2 she weighted 26 1/2 pounds, which means that in the last 3 months she has gained 1 1/2 pounds which puts her around the 50% for her weight. Brent told her she needs to lay off of the french fries, because she is addicted to them. When you ask her what she wants for dinner when dinning out her response is always french fries and that is the first thing that she eats is all of her fries gone. Brent keeps telling her she is going to have a getto booty if she does not lay off of them and she just laughs at him.

So, the doctor looked at her chin and told her "No touch." It is not healing properly because she must be messing with it all the time. I do not see her touch it that often and when I did I made her stop. So, he prescribed her some meds to help it heal and get the redness away. We have to put the meds on it and put a band aid on it before bedtime. However, when I go in to check on her before I go to bed the band aid is no longer on. She takes it off and messes with it when she should be sleeping. That little devil. So, I remind her "Doctor said no touch" and she will repeat it. During the day, she needs her kind reminders and all you have to say is "Josie what did the doctor say" and she will tell you "doctor fix my chin, no touch."

Hopefully, we can get it better soon. From putting the medicine on it all week it is getting better, but is not 100% gone yet. Perhaps, by the end of next week it will be.