Little Fascist carries the Plague

That's right, he has a cold. He normally fights off illness, and is rarely sick at all unless he caught it from me. I thought it might be allergies, but its less sneeze and more phlegmy cough. We're now blowing through boxes of tissues (only the ones in the boxes with the pictures of "The Incredibles" though, as superhero colds can only be subdued by supers, of course) and tearing our way though those amazing triaminic cough strips. It is here that I announce my love for Triaminic brand medicines. Like most children, LF hates medicine. That's just how it is. When he was two years old he got sick and needed fever reducer. We ran to the store and I hoped that he was old enough for chewables, and he was. Since then he gives us no trouble with ibuprofen. Then he got a cold. We scoured the store for cold medicines and stumbled upon the Triaminic chewable cold medicines. He was too young to take them, according to the box, but we were desperate and decided to try it anyway. It worked, he was now taking cold medicine with no fuss. Then, this past year, he gets sick again. The neighborhood drugstore is all out of all kinds of Triaminic chewables so we try the liquid stuff. No good. So we just rought it out through that cold. This time around, however, there are these new strips that actually work for COUGHS and not just everything else. So we shell out the $7.50 for a box of 16 of these bad boys and tear into one... he takes it, sweet pete he took it. Now his cough is drying down and his nose in drying up. Unfortunately, his sleep schedule is now all wacky, and he is still kicking around in his room. Ugh. We're fighting the plague though, and this time we might win.