It's alright, it's alright, alright

[ailbhe]

Linnea was more or less recovered this morning. Fever gone. Just a runny nose left. I, on the other hand, am worse again (I may have forgotten to mention that on Wednesday I was too ill to leave the house, as well as having that panic attack) and Rob is also coming down with it. He seems to be a day or two behind me, progress-of-infection-wise, so hopefully I'll be better tomorrow while he lies in bed nursing glands the size of golf balls.

Getting angry enough with one's tonsils to poke them with a toothbrush offers only extremely short-term relief. I may be the only person you know qualified to state this authoritatively.

Linnea can apparently count objects up to five, and recognise the letters A, B and C. Clearly, never giving your child any early education works.

If you get the chance, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/charlieandlola/stories/ and listen to "I am not tired and I will not go to bed" and think of us. Linnea is no longer ill enough to submit to being force-fed medicine. We've wasted 20ml of decongestant today proving this.

Rob, of course, is allowed the hard drugs, like Lemsip Max Strength.

Comments

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Ack. If you are going to poke yr tonsils, perhaps to do so with a fine soft cotton swab loaded with tea tree oil or jello or something. I'm pretty sure the toothbrush isn't going to help.

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

I'm sat here with a lemsip as have another cold :/ *sniff***

[k425.livejournal.com]

Sympathies from Wet Yorks, where OldBloke and I are both suffering far worse with YoungBloke's cough than he is (he had croup one night last week and apart from the runny nose is about healthy. We, on the other hand, are pretty grumpy...).

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

Ha. We're still the same person. Ended up in A&E with Colin having croup on Friday night (and it takes a *lot* to get me to hospital, and I had no doubt that we needed to be there). He's fine. I'm not!

And to get back to the topic in hand, sympathy to Ailbhe from Edinburgh, too! Not having tonsils any more I can't be sure, but I'm pretty sure poking them with a toothbrush is a bad idea, too!

[ailbhe]

Nasty tonsils hurt me. I can assure you that I hurt them back.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Insert twilight zone music here >

Dreadful, isn't it.