Sick Children

Today I am going to write about sick children. Have any of you ever had a child who vomits every time she is about to get new teeth. My daughter who is only three has gotten sick for a couple of days when she gets new teeth.

I really wish that it would not happen that way. She feels miserable, but at least it goes away. The last time she got her bottom molars she vomited for a couple of days and then she developed a cough for a couple of weeks. It would only happen at 4:00 in the morning. She would then sleep with me for the rest of the night. It was not fun.

I hope this time will not be so bad. She has been good for the past three hours though. She has had something to drink and now she is eating crackers. She has gotten sick enough times that I usually let her judge when she is able to eat and drink. I do follows a nurses suggestion for giving just a little bit of water at a time right after she gets sick.

I hope tomorrow is better. There may not be a posting for the next couple of days, because we will be travelling. Keep checking though, because I might have time to write something. I can always list some writing prompts.

The joy of a cold or is it joy?

I wonder does anybody think that a cold can be joyful? I really do not think so. I know that I have not had any joys out of the colds that I have had in the past three months. This first cold I had in over a year began the first of September. I was coming back from vacation in Wyoming. We were driving and because of the elevation change, my ears got so plugged they hurt for three days. I could never get them to completely pop. The next couple of colds were not so bad for me, but they were really bad for my daughter. She would wake up at 4:00 every single morning. She woke up at the same time for at least a week. It was terrible. I was so tired from being awakened every night. Now, this latest cold I have in not much better than the first. I have had it for about a week and most of the time my nose is so plugged I can’t even breathe. I am just glad that I am old enough that I can take the cold medicine. I just suffer along with the kids when they get sick. I know there is no joy to having a cold.