1. Hair
2. Skin
3. Bone
I’ve had all my hair cut off. I’ve worn it short for 20 years anyway, but recently I grew it. A bit. It went wavy. Straight-haired, don’t-care-if-it’s-raining me. It went fluffy at the ends. I couldn’t do anything with it. On holiday, The Man said it was horrible. Now I am elfin, and he likes it again. What a relief. “What conditioner do you use?” asked the Shampoo Girl. ”Hedrin,” I didn’t say. Lifestyle Guru Hairdresser has spent two years tut-tutting over the straw on my head and reassuring me that Hair Changes When You’re Pregnant. This time she sprayed my head with Instant Stand-Back Defibrillating Deep Impact Conditioner. At least I hope that’s what it was. But the haircut’s great, the colour’s great… and I would be walking on air except for one thing…. Lifestyle Guru Hairdresser, who runs two salons, works full-time and has two sons aged 8 and 6, has finished her Christmas Shopping. And it’s wrapped.
Son 1 aged 5y 1m is much better but still droops if he’s not topped up with Calpol. The rash is still pver his neck, chest, stomach and back but it’s now faint pink. Now. All you consultant dermatologists and micro biologists reading this. His molluscum, which has been the grinding bane of my world for months and months and months, is clearing up. I have tried everything. Some of the things I have tried - neat tea tree oil - have made his skin even worse. He was allergic to it and he broke out in eczema. I tried to stop it spreading with every brand of skin sensitive plasters on them and he was allergic to them all. So his chest and tummy was peppered with horrible pustuley molluscum, and the skin between was raw with eczema. Over the last week the eczema is in retreat and the molluscum is healing over and shrinking. So what’s done that? The Strep bacteria or the penicillin? It’s got to be the bacteria, hasn’t it, because molluscum is a virus and we all know that Antibiotics Don’t Work On Viruses.
The other Good Thing about today was the weather in the afternoon. We had thundering rain and Force 10 winds overnight and this morning… and then, still windy, still cold, but the sun came out. We wheeled the boys into The Town, did one of our all-you-can-carry Tesco shops and came back again with not a drop of rain on us. Son 2 aged 2y 2m was exhausted and refused to sleep, which made him into my stalker over tea. Lamb shanks. The Man bought them. I cooked them. The Man had seconds. Son 2 ate three pieces. Son 1 chewed one, then stuck his tongue out downwards so the wodge fell off on to his plate. He ate thirds of broccoli in cheese sauce. ”Great,” said The Man. “I’m condemned to chicken and sausages for the rest of my life.”
Tags: bacteria, eczema, Hair cut, hairdresser, lamb shanks, Lifestyle Guru Hairdresser, molluscum, rash, scarlet fever, strep
