I think that if I decide not to blog unless I can’t whine about the boys being sick you’ll never hear from me again. On Sunday we had day three of everyone being well. We were on our way to a camp presentation in Gladys when I thought sarcastically that I should take a picture of the boy’s nostrils to prove that we are completely infection free. That night on the way home David Lee asked Adam if his throat hurts because his voice sounded funny. Adam, of course, said no. By morning he had a temperature of 101.6 tympanic. <\/p>\n
His fever broke sometime Tuesday and was replaced with a deep, mean-sounding cough. Tuesday night Liam started with a temperature of 102.7. <\/p>\n
So instead of taking a fun ride on Amtrak for Adam’s birthday today we are at home fighting bugs again. In looking back through the winter I am realizing that we had one 8 day and one 10 day sick-free time at our house since the end of December. Otherwise we’ve averaged three to five days before someone gets sick again. I know this is a bad year for everyone; but frankly, I’m getting a little desperate not to repeat this. We have two “worst scenario cases” at our house that David and I throw around when we get really discouraged with something. When things get really, really rough either he or I will say, “Hey at least you’re not pregnant,” or “Hey, at least we’re not building a house.” Both those things just go on and on for a minimum of nine months of misery and maxed out survival instincts for us both. This winter has been an awful lot of short term misery piled on top of each other and pretty soon it’s going to rank up there as third.<\/p>\n
What can I do to build up the boys’ immune systems? I’m not a health freak by any stretch; but I would say I’m moderately strict on dietary isssues. I am one of the world’s worst pill takers and even with moving the multi-vitamin bottles around to new places in plain sight for reminders, I forget to take \/ give them. Maybe I should put them beside the boy’s fluoride since I do remember that. I have been pretty faithful in giving Liam acidophilous. While it certainly hasn’t helped keep him well as touted, I do think it decreases his eczema flare-ups. <\/p>\n
I am not an herbalist. I try things sometimes because other people praise them to the sky as miracles and find they don’t work for us. While I know that some herbs truly have been researched and found effective, I sometimes wonder if half the hype on many of them is the placebo effect. Feel free to argue with me. I would love be convinced otherwise. I just get tired of paying 17.98 for a tiny bottle of something that doesn’t change anything for us. Like garlic-mullein oil. Or black and blue cohash. <\/p>\n
At the same time, I’m getting desperate and traditional medicine has nothing to offer besides the flu shot. Have you found something that really, really works for your children. Not just, “no, we didn’t get sick,” but more like, “We were sick all last year and now even with this bad flu year we didn’t get sick becuase we took this.” Or, “one of my children gets sick all the time and now I give them this and they don’t get sick anymore.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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