Sick

What better way to fight a cold than wear ear muffs!

Almost immediately after returning from Thanksgiving, Kai got sick. He had had a runny nose, but it didn't seem bad. However, slowly but surely the nose got worse and turned into a cough as well. Granted it never got horribly bad. What concerned me the most, however, was the throwing up. It came randomly and for the life of us we couldn't figure out what was triggering it. Sometimes he would be coughing, sometimes not. We threw out a couple of gallons of milk thinking maybe that had spoiled. Still no luck. I finally took him to the doctor on Tuesday and she figures that the mucus draining into his tummy made him nauseous and that dairy products just made him feel worse (despite the fact that that was the first thing he wanted after he threw up). So we took him off of milk for a couple of days, and he took a teaspoon of Benadryl before bed for the last three days and the nose appears to have dried up. The coughing is disappearing, and he he hasn't thrown up in 2 and a half days. I'm optimistic that we might be on the upswing!

The face Kai makes when I say "smile!"