Last Friday we went to Gaius' "skin" doctor. He has put Gaius back onto heavy steroids :( and added a new treatment on top of everything else we already do (up to 2+ hours per day). He added a treatment called wet wraps, What are wet wraps? ...They told us, "you take one set of gauze for his arms which you cut to length then another for his midsection which you cut to length. Then you tie them together at the shoulder. Next you cut another set of gauze for his legs which then is cut to length for both legs. Tie them together at the hip and lastly the feet which works much the same as the arms and legs. This is the first layer which is wet and must be followed by a whole other layer that is dry!!!!! This is then expected to stay on (who knows how???) And all of this should be done morning and night and fixed throughout the day as per needed. " !!As we left the doctor's office with this new burden Andrew turns to me and says, "I don't know how we are going to find the time to do all of this everyday?" My response was, "Some how." We were sent up to a nurse who has been treating Gaius for months, to be shown how to prepare the wet wraps. I must say at this point, God is amazing the way he takes care of us. Our nurse friend, Julie, looked at the prescription and said, "I really must go down and up date the Doctor on the new way of doing these wet wraps. I do not see how they think parents will possibly be able to do this. Now we use a new product which is pre-made tops and bottoms." Our response, "Praise the Lord!!!, we can do this"
Well, I did his first wet wrap tonight. It is not quite as easy as it looks, but it only added about 30 minutes to Gaius' skin treatment each morning and night! So I think we can handle this.
Gaius wanted to show off his new super man suit for you all to see!
Please keep his skin issues(eczema) in your prayers. We are praying that in about two weeks these wet wraps will work so well that we can stop having to use these nasty heavy steroids on his poor little body.
