Shingles and PreProm

With all good intentions to write on this blog in the past 16 days, time gets the best of me.



Bubba has recovered from his bout of shingles. It doesn't look like he will scar much from them, unlike his little sister who calls her scar from her bout of shingles when she was two "an angel kiss." How precious is that? She doesn't even remember having them. Thank goodness. The nurse practitioner who saw Bubba appeared to dis me when I told her the reason I brought him in was because he had shingles. After looking at his cluster of blisters on his waistline that went from midline bellybutton around to the middle of his back, she amazingly stated " Wow I have never seen shingles in a child before." We got our antiviral medication for him and he was pretty much dried up within a few days. Sometimes, when you are in the health care profession, it is almost better that no one knows what you do for a living.



My precious teenager is getting ready for prom this week. She is a sophmore going to prom with junior and senior girls. (I'm sure boys will be involved at some point). She is excited and I hope she has an incredible time. She has been primping herself for two weeks....finding the right accessories - purse, jewelry, etc., fake-n-baking (although I keep encouraging her to not overdo it), and then she is getting fake nails. I suggested that maybe she consider a pedicure since she has open toed shoes and she IS a dancer and her feet are NOT that attractive. And her response was "No one is going to look at my feet anyway, Mom." Okay.



I just attended a two day breastfeeding conference this week. I love getting new information and learning more about something that I am so passionate about. This is cool - Alaska has the highest rate in the United States for EXCLUSIVELY breastfeeding babies to three months of age!