So, now, Ana has two different problems going on right now.

[conuly]

Neither one of them is catching, so she's been going to school regardless.

First, she's phlegmy. (Or, as we say, phlegm-ish. This is my mother's idea of a joke, because we're not, in fact, Flemish. Nobody ever said my mother was actually funny.)

Well, I get like this every year from fall until spring, and my mother gets like this every year... huh, you know, when I put it that way it might be better to say that I and my mother are only well in the summer, but you know what I mean, and Ana said herself she gets sick every fall. There's nothing to be done for it. She's not contagious, she's not sick, she's just coughing a lot. (Cough-ee.) She can't stay home just because she's congested, she'd never go out!

The other problem is a rash which is some form of allergy. Ana is an itchy child, but this rash is a little new. No fever or other symptoms, and it's almost certainly just contact dermatitis... aka not catching.

Regardless, it's been going on all week and so her parents decided to send her to the doctor today. So I let her sleep in a little, got her up, dressed her in clothes-that-aren't-uniform... and found out that the first available appointment is at 3:30. So she went to school. In her non-uniform clothes because I agreed it was okay not to change out of them just this once, and wearing her sister's shoes. Her sister's shoes??? Yup. (We fixed that as soon as we walked into the office.) I'm gonna put a little bit of nail polish or something on them so we can tell one pair from the other, I think.

Comments

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, it's maybe a testament to my own sense of humor, but I think your mom's joke is pretty funny.

I sympathize with her on the rash, though. I got my hands in something last week, and they itched for days. Not fun.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Please do mention the coughing/congestion though - I am hoping maybe they can at least (at her next appt maybe) run allergy tests on her. *Something* has got to give, you are actually much less congested than Ana gets.

[leora.livejournal.com]

This is probably not relevant, but on the off chance it is helpful...

When I was a young kid, I got some sort of horrible chapping on my hands one winter. Actually, it was pretty normal for my hands to crack and bleed most winters, but this one was ~bad~. I dug through my father's box of random medicine (he was a doctor, so companies sent him free medicines with the hope that when a patient came in with something or other he'd hand them something that would help. When various products are equally good, doctors will give patients whatever they have on hand, but then the patient may develop a brand loyalty, because "that's what the doctor uses", so we had a box of random meds at home) and found some eucerin. Applying it regularly really, really helped. It won't work with a contact dermatitis, but if she's getting issues due to weather change (the wet and the dry of winter) then it or a different moisturizer applied often may help with that. It's one of the things I wish I'd learned about earlier. Neither of my parents were girly enough to think about moisturizer, but regular moisturizing really did help keep my hands from dying each winter. the timing of the rash just makes me wonder.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Alas, this is DEFINITELY not the same, though it is good avice generally. No, this was totally-fine-one-day and covered-head-to-toe-in-bumps-and-itchiness the next, being particularly bad (and RED) in the crease of her elbow and the bottom of her chin to an extent. :-(

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

If she, like me, gets cough-y right around when the weather turns cold, you might have her tested for asthma. I get horrible congestion in my lungs every year because of it.