... Was Diagnosed with Impetigo......
Roberta is from North Jersey and came with her husband and 2.5 year old daughter, whom they adopted from KZ last year, to adopt their next daughter, Karina, who is now one. Since their arrival, Roberta’s husband and the older girl have gone home to prepare the house for Karina, go back to work, and look after the girls’ older (bio) brothers. Roberta is a nurse. (Her husband is a doctor.) Roberta diagnosed Otis’ icky rash as impetigo, which means, I guess, that we will all soon have skin issues. (I looked up impetigo on the web after we came home, and Otis seems like a textbook case of the streptococcus variety.) The doctor Cathy and Tony used to look at Lizzie and think about her digestive issues is coming to see us tomorrow. (They still make house visits here, and health care is free!) Presumably he will give us a prescription for antibiotics.
posted by Candace and David at 7/31/2005 12:34:00 PM
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I'm not being critical, but I've never heard anyone say 'southern New Jersey' before. It sounds kind of swank. I say 'South Jersey,' with a slight New Jersey accent. At least I hope it's slight....
I believe people from, say, Princeton like to say they're from "Southern New...>hack< >hack<" which is to say they're pretending they're really from Maryland.
On another note: I had a rampant case of impetigo (itchy, gooey, annoying) the summer I was eleven. Unpleasant, but I lived. Antibiotics do the trick. (that and not picking your nose, which at eleven, was hard to resist.)
-ND
Hi Candace and David,
It was not at all unusual for kids growing up in Miami to get impetigo.
Are you receiving tons of unwanted advice about it? Well, our mom, who has been reading the journal daily, sends this bit more:
"regarding the impetigo.......Bactine worked for Dan......he used to get it so bad when he was a little kid. It doesn't burn and no antibiotics. Just a thought. Don't know if they can get it there."
So, whatever works.
Regards,
Loretta
Speaking from recent experience...you don't need antibiotics to treat impetigo - one or two daily smears of Neosporin for several days will take care of it. Now how do you say Neosporin in Kazakh?
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