Health Party Scrapped Due To Sickness

Man, oh, man. we just can't catch a break. We're now down with chest colds and Nemy just went to get more antibiotics for her sinus infection. Poor Noah has a cough as deep and loud as his dad's. I know that "they" say that cold medicine doesn't work well for kids, but I think that just applies to decongestants and not cough suppresants. We tried the chewables and the liquids. He spits both of them out. We try to hold him down and squirt the liquid in his mouth. Once its in, if we can keep it in, he will lay there and gargle it for a few minutes vs. swallowing it. Just waiting for the opportunity to spit it out. He's nothing if not persistant.

So we bought the strips (like the dissolving breath strips) and the popsicles. The popsicles taste like medicine and the cold doesn't mask it enough so he won't eat them. The strips, however, are great. They also taste like crap, but they melt too fast for him to get them out of his mouth. We just wait until he has his mouth wide open and then sneak them in, perferably to the roof of his mouth. He tries to scrape it out, but it's gone before he can get to them. Huzzah!!! A medicine we can actually keep in him. I never thought the day would come. It does help with his cough, which helps with his sleeping.

Anyhow, that's where we're at now. Tired and sick. Hopefully this will run it's course quickly. I have a quiche in the oven with lots of onion, greens and garlic. And we've been eating a lot of fruit too. Anything to help our immune system. I guess this is the reaction to the first day of spring. Hopefully by the time summer arrives, we'll be well enough to enjoy it.

All for now. Peace out ya'll.