As EB Awareness week is approaching, I always hear the “numbers” of EB being floated around. One official website states the incidence of EB is 1 out of every 20,000 births. Another official website states One in about 17,000 live births. Yet another official website states 1 in 50,000. The truth is, most likely nobody knows for …
Tag : recessive dystrophic
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If there was one thing I’ve been criticized endlessly for, and for which I’ve stood my ground over and over again, is my need to bandage Nicky. I wrote extensively about it in my book (Butterfly Child), but I feel the need to make my feelings more “public”, so to speak, because, once again, I …
For the past few years now I’ve been mixings things up to put on Nicky’s wounds and I do believe I have a good mixture of ingredients now that has helped his wounds in ways no other single item has before. It all got started a couple of years ago when a friend suggested “Medihoney“. …
If there was one question that I was asked more than any other in regards to my son’s condition is why he and others with RDEB look so pale and why they don’t seem to age per se, they always look very young. Even when Nicky was interviewed by FOX11 earlier last year, the most …
September 2003 – Nicky wasn’t quite 7 years old when his little brother Connor was born. Nicky would spend a lot of time just staring at him in awe! He was so happy when he was born that at the hospital he told me he was so happy he now had “a little brother to …
Last night Nicky started crying in my arms. “I can’t do anything mamma, what am I going to do after I get my diploma?”. He has only 4 credits left and school is so hard for him, he is not interested in going to College. He told me he would go to culinary school if …
If there is something that is prevalent in our society, is the saying to those that suffer: “Hang in there, things will get better”, which is fine and dandy if it’s said to someone whose condition will, indeed, get better. When you have a child with a “terminal” condition, however, (Nicky has the Recessive Dystrophic …
As I posted yesterday, wound pics generate a barrage of negative comments on Facebook, they usually end up being reported and deleted, which is why I don’t post them there anymore. It’s just not worth getting banned over them when I can just post them here. This is EB-more specifically, Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa-Severe Generalized …
This is part 6 of an infinite series of photos I am posting on the Facebook page I have for the book I wrote about my journey raising my son with RDEB (Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa) called Butterfly Child. I am posting a few images from Nicky’s life and commenting on either what was going on at the time …
It has become apparent over the years that 9 times out of 10, when Nicky tells me his foot is really “bad”, I need to brace myself. This is what I braced myself for a couple of weeks ago… After I took off the bandages, big areas of skin just started peeling off the top …
I updated my Caringbridge Blog today (here’s the link–> http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nickyz/journal/view/id/554ba814f02065dc3614f506) and I also posted a photo on my Butterfly Child Book Facebook Page and I talk about the pain and suffering that Nicky endures. It’s not easy. EB sucks. It’s been two years now since I had to start giving Nicky pain meds basically 24/7 and …
I guess you can call this my first VLOG. I wanted to do this with Nicky but he’s not feeling well, so I just went on and did it myself. I sincerely hope it helps someone! Love & Light,
I don’t take any perverse pleasure posting this picture, but I learned long ago that RDEB (Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa) cannot be explained, it can only be shown. And even while posting this photo I cannot show how easily the skin peeled off, or how hard it was to re-wrap, as the upper thigh is …
I will be done with my book real soon, and then comes the hard part of selling it or self-publish it, we’ll see. However, in the new year, I want Nicky himself to be able to answer questions on a video I will make of him which I will then upload to YouTube. So, ASK …
Here’s the photos I promised yesterday when I updated Nicky’s CaringBridge Blog. Once again, I don’t post these lightly. I cringe a little. But there is truly no other way to show people what EB is. To understand EB. I want people to understand why Nicky is in so much pain. Photos is the only way …
Ten years ago a documentary aired that I am yet to show Nicky and not sure I ever will. I wasn’t even able to watch the whole thing in one sitting, I kept crying buckets and it took me three sittings to finish it. I guess you could say it hit a bit too close to …
This past year it seems as if giant leaps have been made for EB Awareness. As Julia Roberts would say: “HUGE”! I still can’t believe it. It’s happening. Not only Awareness is happening, a cure is closer than ever. I have to pinch myself! Last year, right around this time, the book ‘Courage Under Wraps‘ …
This past week we were fortunate enough to visit Legoland-a friend who did a fundraiser for us bought us the tickets, of which I will forever be grateful. I wish I could convey in words how much fun Nicky had in this trip and how nice everyone was to us everywhere we went. For starters, …
I got hit with a big blow yesterday, one I’ve known all along nonetheless. As the DNA results came back that Nicky did in late April at Stanford to find out if he’s eligible for the skin graft trials, I’ve been trying to decipher them myself. I will talk to the Doctor this week (hopefully) …
As many of you know, I don’t post photos of Nicky’s wounds on Facebook because they’ve been deleted many times because people “report’ them. I’ve been blocked and my account has even been suspended by my intent to simply show what EB is. People are disturbing and can be quite mean-to say the least. I …
As per Nicky’s wishes, I am posting a few pictures I took a week ago of his left leg/foot. He’s been trying so hard to start walking again. Doctors and others have treated him as if it’s something so easy to walk, his EB team wants him to go to rehab, something he sooooo does …
I just wanted to make a quick post about Nicky’s left hand and show a couple of pictures. This is Nicky’s left hand. This particular photo shows quite clearly his four fingers and the ‘pinky’ is all, as we say, “webbed in”. The index, middle and ring finger are …