To preface: Korben has had a horrible cough for 2 days now and for 2 nights I have not gotten a lick of sleep due to non-stop coughing and occasional puking.
At 3:30am I started looking for 24 hour urgent care centers. This was after a steam shower, vicks, cough medicine, inhaler and a vaporizer having ZERO effect on said cough. Guess how many 24 hour urgent care centers there are in Utah County? ZERO. ZIP. NADA. ZILCH. A billion kids in Pleasant Grove alone and ZERO 24 hour centers. Really?
Around 3:50 the crazed google search for home remedies started. I found one. We tried it. It worked. (Click Here for Remedy) It didn't completely get rid of the cough - but for the first time in hours Korben was getting a few minutes in between coughs. For good measure, Mike gave him a blessing and we said a prayer together. Mike was skeptical about the blessing because through the whole thing, Korben kept saying ,"In the name of..." over and over because he didn't want Mike's hands on his head. We both had a hard time holding our laughter in, but I like to think that God has a sense of humor - especially when it is 4am, you haven't had any sleep so are slap happy, and you are dealing with a special kid like Korben.
So in reality the home remedy definitely helped, but I imagine the blessing is what now has Korben sleeping - cough free for exactly 12 minutes so far.
Oh - and the nuggets were the first food he specifically asked for without prompting in 2 days. How can you deny a kiddo that?
It is now 4:52. It is silent in the house and I am off to hopefully get my first really good sleep in days. Yay!
5 comments:
I am glad you all finally got some sleep, having sick kids is so hard! You have me really curious about what the home remedy was that you tried????
That is horrible! I'm glad you finally got some sleep. I checked out that home remedy. Very interesting! I have never heard of that before. And I like to believe God has a sense of humor as well.
She linked it in post, but basically you use a warm/hot washcloth to open the pores on the soles of his feet. Then you apply generous Vapo-Rub, and then put their socks on.
It worked in about 10-15 minutes.
This home remedy is one of the kids favorites. We do it before bedtime when they have a coughing cold and it triggers giggles which actually turn into coughing. Luckily, the coughing laughter doesn't last long and it really does work. This is exactly why we go through so much Daniels Ointment (we prefer that over Vicks).
Heavenly Father never sleeps, right?, so he was probably trying really hard to not giggle as well :D
you can use essential oils the same way. that is the first place we tell our customers to apply. ther are more pores per sq inch.
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