hi, i'm moira. i'm in need of a spittoon, a kleenex and a miracle remedy for the eczema on my scalp. my mother slathers my body daily with a compound of cold tar, cortisone cream and petroleum jelly but you can't put this shit in my hair. my skin now feels like what a baby's butt should though my scalp is still one messed up playground and as you can see cetaphil lotion is simply not working.
i've been greased up like a pig with olive oil/crisco (yes, a pediatrician recommended this) and we've used every pharmaceutical cream for eczema on the market and i laugh at their paltry results. and if you ask me about the all natural arbonne baby line, i might have to come kick your ass.
can you help a sister out by helping my mother cure this business on my head so, she can stop laying awake at night, worrying this condition will destroy my future aspirations as a jazz singer and perfume designer?
peace, love and snot bubbles!
Man, we so did that last year and had the same outcome. I think we got a scrub brush type thing and went to town...
Posted by: Sarcastic Journalist | 15 March 2006 at 10:48 PM
Can you get rid of the eczema and keep the hairstyle?
Cause the hair rocks.
And are you serious about the Crisco?
Posted by: sweatpantsmom | 16 March 2006 at 04:13 AM
Bless her heart! :(
Her hair style is very punk rockish...is she sure she wants to be a jazz singer? LOL ;)
Posted by: Dianne | 16 March 2006 at 07:20 AM
sarcastic: we pity the poor scrub brushes around here. they don't have the determiniation to last longer than the problem.
sweatpantsmom: definitely going to keep the hairstyle but leave the crisco to fried chicken. yep, it's true. it was a last ditch effort to help her poor skin. it was so bad, she was cracking and bleeding all over the doctor's office floor.
dianne: yes, a jazz singer might be in the cards. she thinks with her name, moira vaughn, she should sing jazzy tunes or put out an obnoxious perfume.
Posted by: gorillabuns | 16 March 2006 at 07:36 AM
Girl...as an eczema suffering white girl, I understand your pain!!!!!!! In fact, just last week I had to visit two different Dr's for eczema on two different places on my body. Remember my email to you this week about being at the Dr's office and seeing your girls pic on the wall? I wasn't there for my yearly...turns out I have CHRONIC eczema down there!! Just PRAY that your daughter never has to go through that HELL!!!! TMI, I know...sorry!!
Posted by: Dalania | 16 March 2006 at 08:38 AM
love the hairstyle!! It's going to be all the rage! (I'm no help at all, I'm sorry)
Posted by: Amy | 16 March 2006 at 10:14 AM
dalania: not the china?!?!?!?! that's just not right. hope doeden was able to give you something for that and yes, i thank my lucky stars that the girls don't have it down there, well, yet...
amy: yes, we are trend setters here. watch out babystyle and parents magazine. god, i'm losing touch.
Posted by: gorillabuns | 16 March 2006 at 10:38 AM
Ohh nooo, poor darlin!
I remember every time STILTS had a new tooth coming in, he would drool like there was no tomorrow and break out in these huge patches of eczema at the corners of his mouth. He looked like some freaky ventriloquist's doll!
I hope she's all better soon. :O)
Posted by: Mysh | 16 March 2006 at 10:40 AM
My youngest, SuperChic, now 3 1/2, had it so bad she was pulling her hair out at 2 months. We also did the spiky punk rock hair. We switched her to all Aveeno products for sensitive skin, and our older daughhter, almost eight now, too since they took baths together. Baby tub in the big tub and wash 'em both at once. Our dermatologist gave us three prescription creams. One for every day, one for when it was cracked and bleeding, and one for when it was oozing. They were Elocon, Ketzoconazole, and Bactroban. At least I think that's what the third one was. Now as far as the crisco thing, my mom uses it on her eczema, and i've used it on mine aslo, it really does work. Something about it being pure, which means it doesn't fight with the eczema or something like that. Now there are times when even the crisco can irritate it. When that happens my mom has to take some type of steroid pill. She starts out with six on day one, five on day two, you get the picture. Now if the stuff on her head is thick and will flake off try to comb it out. This allows the medication, crisco, or whatever to get to the "fesh" eczema. We used a baby brush because the bristles were so soft, and a lice comb, because the teeth were tiny and close together. The only thing is that when you comb/brush it out some of her hair may come out with it. So don't concentrate too much on one area. I hope you find something that helps.
P.S. I've been reading you since my SIL SAJ linked you to her page during her pregnancy. I tend to read and not comment, but for this I was willing to come out hiding.
Posted by: comfortablycrazy | 16 March 2006 at 12:45 PM
mysh: we have been teething like a mother bear here too but i am of course more concerned with the vanity of her scalp looking like crap.
comfortably crazy: WOW! i'm so glad you decided to come out of hiding! that makes me very happy to know you continually come back for more...
thanks for the tips on the products. i do scrub and scrub on the head. i tried aveeno with celia, it irritated her though i have to admit i haven't tried it with moira. i feel i like i look like a mother chimp pruning her child, obsessing with the hair on her head!
Posted by: gorillabuns | 16 March 2006 at 01:47 PM
Not having any cool hints, I'll just say that Moira is so cute I want to hug my monitor.
Posted by: Jurgen Nation | 16 March 2006 at 05:23 PM
man, that little one has luscious lips just like her mama!
seriously, how cute could she be?!
Posted by: whoorl | 16 March 2006 at 07:23 PM