The Fastest Pibble Popper

Tuesday night, actually the wee hours of Wednesday morning, my little man woke up complaining that he couldn't breathe. He's had a cough for a few days and I was blaming it on allergies. So I told him to climb into bed with me and breathe through his mouth. OK not the most mothering advice, but I new that alarm clock was going to sound soon and getting medicine into him is not an easy job. A decongestant in a couple of hours would be fine.
Well we both drifted off to sleep, and then the alarm clock went off... Emilia was up. As I leaned over Andrew to lower the monitor I heard his breathing. Not good, quick, short breaths with a pretty loud wheeze. After dropping the girls at school and Andrew not being any better we headed to the ER. We went to the one close to home not the hospital because I would never be out in time to get the girls.
After two breathing treatments and exrays which showed clear lungs, the little man still couldn't breath very well. My thoughts ,as they kept taking his oxygen levels, shaking their heads and walking out, were , we're going to the hospital, if his oxygen level doesn't go up.
Finally and I believe on their last attempt before sending us to Hasbro Childrens , his level was in the acceptable range. They sent him home with an inhaler and Prednisone.
The doctor gave him one pill before we left. Andrew stinks at taking medicine. He gets himself so nervous and upset that he gags and immediately throws up. I did warn the doctor. Andrew took the pill and did rather well untill it started to disolve on his tongue. Here comes the panic. The doc kept telling him to drink some more water to wash the pill away. andrew told the doc it tasted like pee, (does he know what pee tastes like)? Then and this is why we talk in codes in our house, Andrew announces that it tastes like Donkey too. Donkey is our code word for poop. So basically Andrew just told the doc it tastes like ---- .... exactly. The doc looked at me slightly confused, I mean he understood it tasting like pee, but donkey? Does donkey taste that bad?
Finally the pill was down and Andrew promised the doc to take the rest so he would get better.Yesterday I had to give Andrew his pill. What a trooper!!!!! I had to cut it into crumbs but he put it on his tongue and one by one they went down. Every time he swallowed one he would say it's invisable. The pibble is invisable! Pibble = pill, now we have another code word. It was just too cute to correct. We'll see how the pibble goes down today. Hopfully there is no donkey involved.


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