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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 263083" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>Thanks for the vote of support.</p><p> </p><p>I emailed the nurse back. "What, particularly, is the problem? He was nearly late to school today because he wouldn't get out of the bath."</p><p> </p><p>Nurse replied "SpEd teacher stated that last week was really bad. He "smells" but not like BO and his ears were dirty too. She said that his ears were better today but he still did not smell good. Are you supervising his baths?"</p><p> </p><p>To which I replied "He's barely capable of wiping his own butt... I have to supervise his baths. I don't stand in there for every moment he's in the tub, but I wash him down then he plays for a while on his own. I don't make him wash his hair every day because that's always a big fiasco, but we wash it 2 or 3 times a week.</p><p>Other than the first week and a half after daylight savings time, he always takes a bath in the morning, and even during that time, if he woke up and had wet thru his pull up, he had a bath. He wets the bed terribly, pretty</p><p>much every night, so he has to have a bath every morning or he reeks of urine. He wears pull-ups but I still end up stripping the sheets 5 days a week, at least. He uses glycerine soap and natural laundry detergents at the advice of his doctor. Something about the xenoestrogens or something - sounded bogus to me, but we figured it was worth a try. It does seem to cut down on the sexualized behaviors, tho I don't think the laundry detergent works as well as "regular" laundry detergent, but when I went back to Cheer, he started grabbing people again.</p><p>His shoes reek, I assume because he doesn't wear socks. We bought him a new pair of shoes becaus the old ones smelled so bad, but he did wear the</p><p>old ones all last week. His clothes came out of his dresser and were folded, so I assume they are clean, since he doesn't seem to have a problem with obsessively folding dirty laundry and putting it back in his drawers.</p><p>I am absolultely mortified. I will do whatever i need to do to fix this, but I don't know how he smells bad or what to fix to correct it. </p><p>I will try to get some foot spray and see if that helps. Please let me know if it does or does not get better."</p><p> </p><p>And a short while later, she said it sounded like i was doing all I could do, and there's not much to do for stinky feet, and she apologized for striking a nerve.</p><p> </p><p>I don't think she meant to be insensitive - she has a 20+ year old son who's a quadrapalegic and lives at home - i think she just wrote assuming he stinks cause we don't take care of him.<span style="font-family: 'Courier'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 263083, member: 1848"] Thanks for the vote of support. I emailed the nurse back. "What, particularly, is the problem? He was nearly late to school today because he wouldn't get out of the bath." Nurse replied "SpEd teacher stated that last week was really bad. He "smells" but not like BO and his ears were dirty too. She said that his ears were better today but he still did not smell good. Are you supervising his baths?" To which I replied "He's barely capable of wiping his own butt... I have to supervise his baths. I don't stand in there for every moment he's in the tub, but I wash him down then he plays for a while on his own. I don't make him wash his hair every day because that's always a big fiasco, but we wash it 2 or 3 times a week. Other than the first week and a half after daylight savings time, he always takes a bath in the morning, and even during that time, if he woke up and had wet thru his pull up, he had a bath. He wets the bed terribly, pretty much every night, so he has to have a bath every morning or he reeks of urine. He wears pull-ups but I still end up stripping the sheets 5 days a week, at least. He uses glycerine soap and natural laundry detergents at the advice of his doctor. Something about the xenoestrogens or something - sounded bogus to me, but we figured it was worth a try. It does seem to cut down on the sexualized behaviors, tho I don't think the laundry detergent works as well as "regular" laundry detergent, but when I went back to Cheer, he started grabbing people again. His shoes reek, I assume because he doesn't wear socks. We bought him a new pair of shoes becaus the old ones smelled so bad, but he did wear the old ones all last week. His clothes came out of his dresser and were folded, so I assume they are clean, since he doesn't seem to have a problem with obsessively folding dirty laundry and putting it back in his drawers. I am absolultely mortified. I will do whatever i need to do to fix this, but I don't know how he smells bad or what to fix to correct it. I will try to get some foot spray and see if that helps. Please let me know if it does or does not get better." And a short while later, she said it sounded like i was doing all I could do, and there's not much to do for stinky feet, and she apologized for striking a nerve. I don't think she meant to be insensitive - she has a 20+ year old son who's a quadrapalegic and lives at home - i think she just wrote assuming he stinks cause we don't take care of him.[FONT=Courier][SIZE=2][FONT=Courier][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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