2 Year olds have habits
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Today's update
9/30/26
Two year olds have habits. Leah likes to twirl her hair to sleep. She needs her lovely just right on her pillow for her head. She needs her Warmies tucked in and covered by her purple pillow. All those things are hard to do with her hands braces on. She can’t soothe herself back to sleep by twirling her hair when she wakes up in the middle of the night. If her blanket pushes down she cries, “mommy. I need my blanket pulled up!” She’s needing lots of help in the middle of the night. But somehow last night she used her mouth to remove her brace and managed to scrape one her grafts open…. It’s hard to rest. And then if she’s uncomfortable she just wants to be on top of mommy.
Lots and lots of itching is occurring. It’s a side effect of the healing. The Benadryl prescribed makes her angry. Like thrashing and screaming angry so they changed the prescription and this one seems to knock her out so we are trying to only use it around nap and bedtime and manage the rest of the time with lots and lots of lotion and her new vibrating tool. She’s a scratcher and picker with just bug bites so this burn thing is a whole new level.
Leah has also unfortunately caught her brothers yuck. It’s pretty normal for her to need breathing treatments when she gets sick so we’ve started those but are sad that it’s just another thing for her little body to be fighting.
Praise! We have clean safe water and Leah was able to get a good bath in last night!
Ways to Pray:
Two year olds have habits. Leah likes to twirl her hair to sleep. She needs her lovely just right on her pillow for her head. She needs her Warmies tucked in and covered by her purple pillow. All those things are hard to do with her hands braces on. She can’t soothe herself back to sleep by twirling her hair when she wakes up in the middle of the night. If her blanket pushes down she cries, “mommy. I need my blanket pulled up!” She’s needing lots of help in the middle of the night. But somehow last night she used her mouth to remove her brace and managed to scrape one her grafts open…. It’s hard to rest. And then if she’s uncomfortable she just wants to be on top of mommy.
Lots and lots of itching is occurring. It’s a side effect of the healing. The Benadryl prescribed makes her angry. Like thrashing and screaming angry so they changed the prescription and this one seems to knock her out so we are trying to only use it around nap and bedtime and manage the rest of the time with lots and lots of lotion and her new vibrating tool. She’s a scratcher and picker with just bug bites so this burn thing is a whole new level.
Leah has also unfortunately caught her brothers yuck. It’s pretty normal for her to need breathing treatments when she gets sick so we’ve started those but are sad that it’s just another thing for her little body to be fighting.
Praise! We have clean safe water and Leah was able to get a good bath in last night!
Ways to Pray:
- Less itching and itchiness control whether through medication or lotion. We don’t need further wounds to contend with.
- Leah and Josiah’s colds to go away quickly.
- Rest and SLEEP!
- Continued healing of the contracture of Leah’s pinky finger.
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