Tuesday, January 19, 2010

"mason has spots"

and you can imagine how excited the packed waiting room at the doctor's office was to hear madelyn call that out to the nurse when they called mason back. madelyn and i took mason to the doctor so that i could show them his dry skin at his worst. i have been going back and forth about whether i should bring him in but when i took off his pajamas this morning i knew that today was the day.

the dry skin patches are red and about the size of a quarter. this morning they were covering his entire chest and most of his belly. they don't really look like dry skin, more like raw skin. it doesn't seem to bother mason in the slightest, but i have been worried that it might leave scars. he does grab at his chest in a way that looks like scratching when his shirt is off. the doctor prescribed a steroid cream that should have him cleared up by saturday or she wants us to come back.

and here he is just being happy mason (and saying "ma-ma"). love.

2 comments:

Grandma Z. said...

Very cute of poor little Mason. The video did not work.

Witenkling Mommy said...

Hilarious! I know I would turn my kid the other way if I heard 'spots!' :)Hope he's doing better now.