Moving, Playing & Medication.....

.....Things have gotten worse with getting Maisie to taker her paracetamol and fluxocicillin antibiotic, personally I really do not blame her for not wanting the antibiotic...I got a taste of the so called "lemon flavour" antibiotic, ugh it was wrong!!!! There is not a chance on this earth anyone would call that "lemon" it tastes worse than adult paracetamol!!! As your refusing and literally spitting it back in my face, I thought maybe mix it, get some other ideas etc;: Making a game of it -resulted in more screams and anxiety. Let you do it as well - made tons of mess and stickiness for you to then launch the syringe. A spoon - nope not a chance could i get it anywhere close to her mouth without her arms wriggling free to knock it out of my hand. Mixing with food - we tried it in her bottle of milk, her cup of juice, favourite flavour yogurt etc, Maisie could tell each time when we had put in in something!! After finding that there was not a chance that Maisie was going to take these antibiotics with anything, we knew we would just have to try and force you for your own good, so we thought of holding your mouth shut to make you not have a choice in swallowing it - yes this did work, but the screams you gave out were heartbreaking, it was wrong and it felt wrong to do that! NOT AGAIN!!! We were informed by Alan's Mum that holding your nose stops you being able to spit something back up, so this is now how you are getting your antibiotics, propped on the floor (Maisie's too jumpy to be safe on the knee) Alan pins her hands down, i place a towel under the chin to catch dribbles, through the cries and the tightly shut mouth, I wait for the almighty open, close your nose and squirt some in, yes it takes around 4-5 squirts from the 5ml you should be having, but it gets most of it in the system!

Playing is getting better and better & more and more each day, I find that more time is being spent in the Spica Chair each day, as playing with toys in a new way is actually quite fun. As Maisie was in her chair today, i caught her opening her arms wide and grabbing the sides of the chair with each hand, getting a firm grip and then pulling her waist from one side to the other, in the tiniest bit of space that there is where the harness is at the each side. I am thinking that once the antibiotics have stopped, I may look into some natural kind of pain relief for Maisie, she's getting distressed having to keep taking all these different medicines, its not nice, we shall see.....

Steph xxxx