So winter is all about getting sick right? Well we had a not so fun one around here in November and December. We all had colds but that wasn't the worst... the worst was Tyson's cough! After his cold he just didn't get rid of his cough ever and it just kept coming back and mostly at night when he was sleeping. So like he'd cough ALL night. The first few hours he'd be fine but as soon as Mom and Dad went down to sleep he'd start coughing and do it for an hour or two, stop then start again and stop then start... and we'd go in and give him some water sometimes but lots of times just lay in bed trying to sleep and ignore it. I called to see a dr and they said to let it ride its course and if he's not struggling to breathe then it should just get better... NOPE. Stupid advise. After like 3 weeks of continual no sleep for all of us.... I was done. Dr please let us come see you.
And we found out he had sinusitis ... which wouldn't have gone away without medicine. So he had to take amoxicillin daily 2x for 10 days - we called it "pink drink" and luckily he liked it. It took about 7 days but we started to hear the cough stop. Yay! But after 10 days, maybe a few days later - the cough started back up again. This time I didn't wait and we got right back to the doctor - he ended up having sinusitis again - and this happened like 3-4 times and it took us several doses of pink drink to finally get rid of his cough. It was an exhausting 6 weeks. So happy that by Christmas we are rid of it. I think we all had a cough at one point during this whole ordeal so yeah, it was just not a fun sleep time. So glad we are getting rest now!
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