I had to write “take care of sick child” on my to-do list for today this morning. It’s good to remember your priorities, you know. Poor Ezra is just miserably sick with the nasty fever/congestion/cough thing that’s been going around here. He rasped and gagged and snored all night last night with his worried mother having visions of\’c3\’82\’c2\~midnight hospital visits, sleeping in the chair in his room and generally being awake from 1:30-5:30 am. He felt pretty good in the morning, and his appetite isn’t really taking a hit, but after his nap this afternoon he woke up crying, rasping, and miserable with watery eyes and continued aversion to sock fuzzies in the bath water.\par
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I’ve talked to advice nurses twice in the last 24 hours and learned that the CDC has advised parents not to give children under 2 cold medications due to children getting ahold of them and dosing themselves or parents accidentally overdosing them. Kaiser is advising people refrain from giving cold medicine to children under 6. Not to complain, but it sounds to me like they’re saying that my kids ought to be unrelievedly miserable because other people overdosed their kids. (Although Judah did get into the dimetap once, and that was scary though basically without effect) Kind of like not having a glass of wine because other people are alcoholics.\par
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Anyway, probably this will throw the whole week off in terms of social engagements, of which we had several, but that’s just the way it is.\par
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I finished a small ribbon embroidery project last week – I want to post a picture of it here, but that’ll have to wait until the next time I get my pictures off of the camera. 
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We’ve had sickies over here, too, although only coughing and no real misery. I took Ilse to Urgent Care and heard the cold medicine thing. I agree. In general I avoid cold medicine anyway since the symptoms are really the immune system working. But when Jaeger was little an Urgent Care doc told me that giving a dose of cold & allergy before bed during a head cold helps prevent post-nasal drip which helps prevent ear infections.
When my girls had this a few weeks ago, I gave them a spoonful of honey every few hours (or whenever they started coughing again) and that seemed to help a lot. They’d hack away for about five minutes after the honey and then it would go away for about three hours (plus they all liked the taste, of course). \par
Hang in there!\par
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Also George gave them natural black licorice (in the health food or natural food section usually; it’s the one with the panda on the box) for sore throat and he said that works well. He took it himself when he came down with the flu the following week. I can’t stand black licorice and have no intention whatsoever of trying this myself because ICK!!! \par
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I hope Ezra gets to feeling better soon! It lasted about a week for both Anika and Kyra and a good five days for George. I’m on Day 5 and finally am feeling better. Not super, but not so much like the crawling un-dead. I think I should make it to the Music think at church tomorrow, which would be good since Trinity’s singing and we missed her last performance at church.
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Rachel