Dermatology - Follow-Up

Yesterday at clinic, Dr. Keuker noticed that Kaitlyn's rash has not gone away. He asked if I was following the prescribed instructions from the dermatologist and I admitted that I had not because I was not 100% convinced that she had a mite problem. He told me that because of how the rash was presenting itself, he truly believed it to be mites. He advised me to follow the dermatologists instructions. When we got home, I applied the "Permetherin" that the dermatologist prescribed to kill the mites.

Today, we went back at the Dermatologist for her follow-up appointment. I explained to them that I hadn't been putting on the "Permetherin" because it didn't really seem to be working, but based off of a conversation yesterday with her oncologist, I did apply a treatment yesterday. They took another skin sample and did find what looked like mite remnants or dead mites and they explained that it was probably because I just treated her skin yesterday.

That evidence, combined with the conversation with Dr. Keuker was enough confirmation for me. I will now be following the prescribed course of action and hopefully Katie's rash (mite problem) will go away.

This sounds so disgusting.

Just to reiterate what I stated in my previous dermatology post, this is not "catchy", like lice. Everyone has these on their skin, but since her immune system is compromised, it cannot defend against the millions of parasites that live in our environment. So, they infest in the skin and cause irritation. Apparently, this is a common side-effect of chemotherapy.

All the things you never knew or never wanted to know about cancer and chemo...sigh...9 MONTHS and counting until this will all be behind us....