Sunshine is sick. She's been mildly sick off and on for awhile now, mostly due to teething, but this time she's pulling out all the stops. She started getting sick on the cruise (we're going to look into a mild milk allergy) and while waiting for our much delayed flight, she was so miserable. She's got the runny nose, congestion, horrible cough, low to moderate fever, and she is cranky, cranky, CRANKY.
Whenever her medicine wears off, it's a nightmare. She'll cry and rub at her face, which naturally rubs the snot everywhere. She woke up at about 5 a.m. this morning. She had coughed herself awake. We can't give her any medicine for the cough, so we tried to get her to drink juice and water to soothe her throat. She hates to drink while she is so congested since she can't breathe. We finally got her to drink a little water from a cup. Then I gave her one of the sugar free suckers the doctor gave me "for emergencies" (note: his idea of an emergency was that Hubby was watching Sunshine and she was crying) but while she liked the taste, all she did was wave it around. She doesn't understand that she can just lick the sucker. She finally did fall back asleep and slept till noon. Don't get too excited, she's on Hawaii time, which would be 9:00 a.m. Oh well, it meant I also get to sleep in. I've got to fix our schedules soon.
Right now she's mid-medicine dose, so she's happily playing on the floor next to me. She's still very cuddly, which is fun. And oh, look at that. Even though drinking anything is nearly impossible, she's still happy to eat toilet paper. Wonder if there's any nutritional value to that?
No comments:
Post a Comment