Keeping the Faith While Managing Atopic Dermatitis Together
With her daughter’s confirmation coming up, Naomi Parkinson’s emotions are teetering between excitement and dread. While she’s certain Valencia will shine on her big day, she’s also worried the stress will prompt an outbreak of the 13-year-old’s atopic dermatitis.
For her part, Valencia is more worried she’ll forget what to say in front of the congregation than she is of a flare — prompting her mom to set aside her concern and place more confidence in her daughter’s meticulous management of her atopic dermatitis.
A Mom Prepares Her College-Bound Daughter to Manage Atopic Dermatitis on Her Own
Seventeen-year-old Czarina has been accepted to a great college, where she’ll pursue her passion for architecture and live apart from her Yahaira Jerez, for the first time.
As parent and child experience the typical range of emotions that characterize this monumental milestone, they face one unique uncertainty: how Czarina’s new environment will affect the atopic dermatitis she’s lived with since infancy.
Living With Atopic Dermatitis in High School: A Family Reflects on an Eventful Senior Year
When extensive flares of atopic dermatitis on her feet threatened to mar two important events during Kristina DiCarlo’s senior year of high school — her final dance performance and prom — the now 26-year-old leaned heavily on her parents, Tom and Donna, for support.
It was a heavy time for all, as stressful as it was exciting. But looking back, the family appreciates the close bonds they formed while working through the challenges Kristina’s flares presented — from side-stepping an infection to creatively using stage makeup to cover the lesions on Kristina’s feet.
