Last week Ellie got her vaccination against Japanese Encephalitis, a pretty nasty illness you can get from mosquitoes over here. It was the usual vaccination drill: the baring of the leg, the stick in the thigh, the bandaid, the shock, then the getting mad, then the crying, then finding something to distract with, and we’re done.
Only before we left the nurse tells me that the vaccination site can get wet but can’t be soaked in water for three days. Three days!?!? How the heck am I going to give her baths? And y’all, Ellie really needs her baths. We all do in this hot, sticky weather, but the rest of us don’t smear yogurt in our hair. Noticing my shock, the nurse edits her recommendation to one day of no soaking in water. You know, three days, one day, same difference. What?!??
Thinking maybe this has something to do with Taiwan’s dirty water, because I’ve never heard of not getting shot sites wet before, and because I once had a pharmacist advise me to clean wounds with boiled water, and because every single little scratch I get ends up getting infected, I decide to err on the safe side and go for three stinking days without a bath.
And then my working brain finally turns on and I realize I can give Ellie showers. Aha!
AaaaND Ellie thought it was the funnest thing ever. She had a blast. See for yourself.
I think now we’re going to have “shower night” once a week or so. I’d switch her to showers all together if it wasn’t so hard to hold the shower head and soap her up at the same time, especially since she throws a fit every time I’d turn off the shower to do any actual washing.
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