Ethan is sick

It was more than 5 months that Ethan didn't get sick (last month daddy and mummy was sick but luckily Ethan's antibody was strong enough to fight the virus). But this round he cannot escape from falling sick. Mainly could be caused by the hot weather changes.

Yesterday Ethan already shown some sign of going to be sick. He was sneezing and coughing. Mummy was worry. Today his condition gotten more serious with running nose. No wonder last night midnight he was yelling without waking up. At first mummy thought of getting Ethan to heal by himself by not letting him take any medicine but only keep letting him drink a lot of water. After he has taken a noon nap (short nap because of the blocking nose) we found it to be more serious. Therefore after letting him eat the cereal, we decided to let him take the medicine. Mummy knew that Ethan hates and very scared of drinking medicine so mummy mix it into the water as he love the water so much. Well, mummy was underestimating Ethan. Ethan immediately knew that the water was mixed with medicine. Seeing that the water is pink color we even tried to trick him saying that this is "ribena" drink. He cried as we forced him to drink. He actually could recognize and differentiate between plain water or water with medicine by looking at the color. Finally we had no choice but to do it the hard way. We used the syringe to pump the medicine into his mouth and quickly let him drink water. Of course he cried.

Night time we mixed the medicine into his milk (mummy used the handkerchief to cover the bottle of the milk) but he quickly spot the color of the milk. So he tried to drink at first but he refused it afterwards. This time it might be because of the taste of the medicine. So mummy have to increase more milk to dilute the taste and also close the lights then he only want to drink it.

Although Ethan was sick but he is still as active as usual. If not because of the liquid running from his nose, maybe you cannot notice that he was sick. We prayed hard that he will recover by tomorrow.