Well, it's not slowing her down.

[elfs]

So, last night Kouryou-chan gets her first bath since the burn, and I get a good look at her hand. It's healing extremely well. I want the pill that makes my cells go back to that kind of youthful vigour as readily as hers do. One can still see the marks, but the browning has almost faded and the glossiness has retreated somewhat. She's unafraid to use the hand, which by itself is a good sign, sealed as it is within a gauzy mitten loaded with silver sulfadiazine.

Before the bath, we took her to Kidopolis, one of those kids-only padded super jungle-gyms where she could roughhouse as much as she wanted. The hand was barely an impediment to climbing the netted tunnels, padded spirals with two-foot intervals, and rope ladders. Unfortunately, it is slowing down her one way, in learning how to use the toilet, since she cannot now pull down her pants by herself. Hopefully, this won't knock her off-track too badly. I read Sleeping Beauty and Thomas the Tank Engine to her before putting her to bed-- the latter is surprisingly demanding as it expects the reader to keep an enormous amount of detail in his head about whom is doing what at any given time, and if you lose track, the story loses all comprehensibility. I know they're considered "classics," but not all classics are so difficult to read. It needs an editor.

She slept in her own bed, seems to have overcome most of her cough, and didn't get up in the middle of the night that I know of. All good signs that the crisis is going to be behind us very soon.

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Re: The magic of cut-tags....

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

*smiles* Do what you suggested to me, lo these many years ago, when I asked your opinion of internet filters for protecting the tender minds of my daughters (who were then only slightly older than yours are now). Your reply was along the lines of "install filters in their brains", with a few pithy comments about parents who don't bother to pay attention to what their children are seeing, on the internet and elsewhere, who won't talk to their children about it, and who rely on things like pieces of software and movie ratings to do their jobs for them.

My own experience has been that kids handle getting information a lot better than they handle not getting it, and they know better than anyone else what they are and are not ready for. Just be ready to hear "TMI" from them, and willing to respect it, and you should be fine. :-)