The Allergy Kid: Drug free

You might remember the problems we had with Emma's eczema. I posted about them here and here.

Just before Christmas Emma saw her dermatologist as we have done every three months for the last 20 months. This time it was different.

Dr Purvis took one look at her and said to Emma would she like an early christmas present?

Emma was like " Yeah of course."

"Well," Dr Purvis said "Now is as good a time as any to stop the methotrexate."

Emma was ecstatic. I wasn't.

Self portrait - christmas time

Emma hated taking those 3 little pills each and every saturday night.

I hated the thought of the horrid eczema coming back. I couldn't stand the thought of the child being itchy and scratchy again. I wanted her to keep taking it forever, so good have been the results.

But stop taking it she did.

And so far, so good. It has been six weeks.

The drug should be out of her system now.

And the eczema hasn't come back.

Sure she has been a little scratchy here and there, she has had the odd itchy skin. But there aint no eczema.

She is enjoying the swimming in the sea and being buried in the sand. She is as good as we could have hoped for.

And if we are not mistaken, this might be here to stay.

Of course it might not too.

We bumped into her kindy teacher at the supermarket yesterday. She couldn't believe how good Emma looked. We get these comments regularly from people who haven't seen her for a while.