OMG! What a horrible disease for a five-year-old to suffer through. And especially, as you said, when she's not old enough to really understand what's happening.
On the upside, I remember with myself at that age that I didn't understand what was happening, so I wasn't really able to get worried or stressed about it. I didn't realize that I was sick or had anything wrong that other people didn't have until I was about 7 and I am crossing my fingers that she will have everything under control by then. xxx
And the people at that hospital should be shot for not giving your other niece any kind of pain killers. I can't even imagine how hideously painful having a layer of burned skin scrubbed off would be.
I was pretty pissed, yeah. Since then though her pain has been manageable, so that's a plus.
How on earth could a one-and-a-half-year-old climb like that? It's astounding.
Isn't it? Last week, when they had to pull everythng off her walls, it was because she scaled an adult sized dresser and was standing on it reaching for the nightlight on the wall, then climbed back down with the night light in hand. She's a trapeze artist or something!
The daughter of a friend of mine grabbed the handle of a boiling pot on the stove and was severely burned all across her chest, stomach and arms when she was three. She's 30 now and has almost no scaring because she was young enough that she was able to grow new skin. She still required plastic surgery and skin grafts though when she was older.
Yeah, I am hoping her young age will prove useful in the scarring department as she grows.
I will certainly hope for the best...the VERY best...outcome for both girls.</i.
Thank you, darling. <3
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Date: 2014-10-16 09:01 pm (UTC)OMG! What a horrible disease for a five-year-old to suffer through. And especially, as you said, when she's not old enough to really understand what's happening.
On the upside, I remember with myself at that age that I didn't understand what was happening, so I wasn't really able to get worried or stressed about it. I didn't realize that I was sick or had anything wrong that other people didn't have until I was about 7 and I am crossing my fingers that she will have everything under control by then. xxx
And the people at that hospital should be shot for not giving your other niece any kind of pain killers. I can't even imagine how hideously painful having a layer of burned skin scrubbed off would be.
I was pretty pissed, yeah. Since then though her pain has been manageable, so that's a plus.
How on earth could a one-and-a-half-year-old climb like that? It's astounding.
Isn't it? Last week, when they had to pull everythng off her walls, it was because she scaled an adult sized dresser and was standing on it reaching for the nightlight on the wall, then climbed back down with the night light in hand. She's a trapeze artist or something!
The daughter of a friend of mine grabbed the handle of a boiling pot on the stove and was severely burned all across her chest, stomach and arms when she was three. She's 30 now and has almost no scaring because she was young enough that she was able to grow new skin. She still required plastic surgery and skin grafts though when she was older.
Yeah, I am hoping her young age will prove useful in the scarring department as she grows.
I will certainly hope for the best...the VERY best...outcome for both girls.</i. Thank you, darling. <3