the RASH II

I would like to say that the dermatologist was helpful but I would be liar. I was even more frustrated after all of it. He said it was severe skin irritation (I would spell the medical term for it but basically I would miss spell it and it would give Chris more ground to make fun of me:) He gave her some creams and told me to up my dosage of Benadryl. Which by the way made her scream bloody murder as I rubbed them on her today...interesting to see how this will play out. The ointment her PEDI gave her for a yeast infection (on top of EVERYTHING that is going on) gave her a chemical burn which has now turned into chunks of scabs and raw skin... I cried as she cried putting it on her. Ty was a bit confused by the situation of me crying and ever so sweetly came over to Ava and laid on the floor next to her put his hand on her hand kissed her and told her it was going to be ok....AND that made me CRY even MORE. SERIOUSLY folks I am a bit hormonal....
I went a step futher past the Doc and put her on a natzie plan. For 2 weeks I'm only going to have her on a few VERY basic an limited foods like Rice cereal. Which is a bummer b/c we're not going to get to do the whole "stuff your face silly with your own slice of birthday cake and inches of ice cream."
We are celebrating her birthday with Jeff's parents tonight (although it is not until July 5th) And so I WANT to cry over the fact that she won't have much of a birthday celebration. I'm not even going to have a cake...I think it would be mean to have a cake at HER party but not let her eat it ESPECIALLY if you knew what a mooch she was. On her actual birthday we will be on the road to Colorado with my family for vacation...
So that is my poor TATER....it's HER party and she can cry if SHE wants to...
REALLY the party will be fun. We got her some fun presents including a baby doll which I know she will love. The baby doll is from Ty along with some play bottles and clothes...in the store he asked me if it would be alright if sometime he could play with her doll too...
Back to my regime. I bought new laundry soap...the dye free and perfume free stuff that I'm going to wash ALL of her clothes and sheets and probably some of my shirts since we like to snuggle. I'm getting some light cotton footy PJ (she is trying to scratch herself like crazy) and I have to not let her scrtach at ALL costs says Dr. Stern. The sad part is when I change her diaper and she immediately starts to roll around on the floor to stop the itching. BACK to the list...we will stay in the AC for 2 weeks (the heat and even being in the car makes it FLARE up). AND the Doc said I'm not supposed to give her a bath for 2 weeks. I can only use this cream stuff.
My number one goal is to make it stop SPREADING and stop ITCHING and make is DISAPPEAR, later I will attempt to figure out what started it all.
SO I am taking the rash head on with EXTREME measures but there WILL be VICTORY!

I took a few pictures of her so I can track her rash daily...
She had a low moment this afternoon and on top of everything she was so tired and drugged... this is the face that brought tears to my eyes.