Another eventful weekend

Well, we had another one of those "crazy things that happen to my child" event! On Friday afternoon Shannon and Aly went to the Belk store in snellville. Aly was washing her hands in the bathroom and started screaming that it was burning. After checking the water Shannon realized it was the hand soap and rinsed it off. Over the next few hours her hands got worse and developed a few blisters and her fingers were red and swollen. We treated her at home on Friday but then took her to the dr. on sat. morning. They said it was a chemical burn. We are not sure how it happened but we are talking with the manufacture of the soap and with belk trying to figure out what happened. We are thinking either when the cleaning staff refilled the soap that maybe they put something else in there, or maybe were trying to dilute it and put something wrong in there. Maybe someone else tampered with it and put a chemical in there, we don't know. It drives me crazy to think that maybe someone tampered with the soap and now that has to be something we have to worry about in this crazy world.

From now on we are going to carry our own hand soap to ensure that it doesn't happen again. Having a 3 year old with chemical burns on her hands isn't easy, so if we can make sure it doesn't happen again, we will.

Friday night was pretty rough for her. I was going to take her to the after hours pediatrician but they were closed?????  The poor kid wouldn't go potty all night and finally around 9:00 when I asked her again, she cried and said she didn't want to have to wash her hands! :(  We were able to wrap her hands with some pads and put socks over them for the night so she could sleep and we let her sleep with us. Me and JV didn't sleep much because every time she moved we both woke up trying to keep her from hurting her hands. She slept fine though. Saturday morning when I took the socks off it was nothing short of many answered prayers. They looked so much better. She was able to use them on sat which was a huge improvement.

 She has heard us talking about it several people so she knows whats going on but I'm trying to make her understand that it won't happen every time, it was a bad soap and just a weird thing, but again, she's 3 and that's not easy.

Here are her hands on Friday night:

and Sat. Morning: