and it's not even summer.
Kids went to the lake with the ex-in-laws over Memorial Day weekend. Four days, lots of sun, lots of water. I sent TWO types of sunscreen - lotion and spray. Neither was used and both kids were pretty badly burned. Fast forward a few days...peeling has begun on both kids, Rotten1 is peeling and generally worse off than Rotten2, but not horribly awful or anything.
Except, Friday was 'Field Day' at Rotten1's school. And they had 'Water Day' instead - water guns, wading pools, water slides, bounce houses, etc. I send the spray sunscreen, I tell him to keep his shirt ON no matter what because he's still getting over his first sunburn and still peeling. What does he do? Forgets his sunscreen in his bag and takes off his shirt. Enter 2nd degree sunburn complete with blisters on both shoulders.
*sigh*
He couldn't play in his baseball game Saturday, so he was the bat boy. He couldn't spend the night at his friend's, even though he tried to tough it out over there and ended up calling at 11pm last night in pain and tears. He couldn't go to another friend's today because we've banned him from the sun.
*sigh*
He's being a trooper, very little complaining or whining about any of it. And he even admits his lack of responsibility and refusal of what he was told to do. Poor guy.
7 comments:
Oh, poor Rotten. That much sunburn hurts like bloody heck! Hopefully using sunscreen is now a lesson well learned for him.
What do you put on him to soothe & heal the burned areas?
Too bad he's not African American.
*air hugs for the Rottens*
Swami, mostly aloe vera gel - I don't have any plants so it's as pure as the manufactured stuff can be without any more chemicals than necessary. He's been keeping it VERY clean - two or three showers a day, plus nothing covering it, as much as possible.
Today, the blisters popped completely and left large blobs of icky skin. *shudder* Tonight, after his shower, he's pulled off most of the skin and just looks raw. Poor kiddo.
And yes, he's definitely learned the sun screen lesson the hard way.
Ack, sunburns suc big time. BIG TIME. *smooch*
ouch!!
We went to the pool for the first time today and both my boys ended up w/ sunburned cheeks. I didn't have my Coppertone Face Stick and used lotion. Won't be doing THAT again.
Hope he's beter.
Ack! Poor Rotten. Sunburns suck so much. Hope he's over the worst of it by now. We had our first sunny weekend here last weekend and there were a number of sunburns at work on Monday morning. Mine wasn't too too bad. The worst was one of my co-workers who laid out on the beach and sizzled. It was so windy that he didn't feel the burn until it was too late.
I've been lucky with my kids so far and they don't burn badly. I do though. Poor kid. I hope he's all better!
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