3/4/20- Parent Confession 6

Well it sure has been a long time since I wrote anything on this blog, and I'm sure it will be a long time until the next post, ha.  To catch up, we moved into a new house and everything is going pretty well for us.  Except for cold and flu season.  Although I think everyone is having a tough cold and flu season right now.

In the new house (August)

Right around Halloween time, I got the weirdest eye infection.  It lasted 2 weeks and required antibiotic eye drops, steroid eye drops and oral antibiotics.  And unfortunately poor Jack and Bobby ended up with the same eye infection that never seemed to end.  Jack had to go to the children's hospital and receive an IV antibiotic, but he kept calling his hospital room his hotel room and the staff gave him two different sets of Lego.  He was a trooper, and Bobby and I were a wreck.

After that, I was like surely it's going to be smooth sailing through the rest of cold and flu season.  Then I got bronchitis around New Year's. Bobby and Jack seemed to escape unscathed though, and we headed to a family vacation in late January to Legoland California.  We had a great time.  But last week, Jack had some wheezing.

Bobby and I took him to urgent care, and the doctor thought allergy induced bronchitis/asthma.  The kid got an inhaler, oral steroid, and oral allergy med.  He took the inhaler no problem, but he refused the oral medications.  And I don't blamed him.  Both oral medications tasted gross.  Yes I tasted them, and they were gross.


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Jack kept spitting them out.  So what's a parent to do? Bribery of course.  I told him he could have Kool-Aid before and after taking the oral medications.  That seemed to do the trick.  But of course now he wants Kool-Aid just cause.  And when he got his IV at the hospital (in November), he was bribed by a Lego set.

That's my parent confession.  We bribe with toys and sweets to get Jack to take medicine.  And honestly, I don't care who judges because a spoonful of sugar really does make the medicine go down.  I much rather he take his medications and get better than him continuing to spit it out, and if a bribe is what it takes, then it's worth it to me.  Any other parents relate?  And of course stay healthy this cold and flu season and don't forget to wash your hands constantly.  Take care friends!