Cough, cough, cough... and signing cold :-) upped the Nutri Veda as well

Last night was a tough one. Ian and I were both coughing all night long. I had to do a treatment with him at 3am. And he was glad to get it. Neither of us got any sleep... again! And with Mike oot I had to wake him early to take Lila to school. Which is a miracle that she could go considering a couple days ago she was sneezing a whole load up all day. Gross I know but got to keep track of this stuff.

I ended up not giving her antibiotics but did start sinus rinse 4 times a day during the weekend. And it works wonders! It's disgusting to do and hard to get her to do it, although now she sees the benefits it's not as tricky as it used to be.

And Ian had all kinds of green going a couple days ago as well. But saline and suction is his regime. He fights it but not like before so I'm able to use all my strength and get it done on my own. All day long breathing treatments for both and these yucky things. Oh my... just a lot of grossness and frustration.

Onto the positives! Ian has the funny thing of the little piggies on his toes, over and over. As well as putting his hands in his drinking water so I'll sign brrr "cold water". We'll he showed me last night he's paying attention, by signing "cold" in the bath when Lila turned on the cold water to cool down the bath Mommy made too hot. And he did it again this morning after taking a drink of his capped water. Brilliant!

And onto another change I want to log. I was trying to cancel Nutri Veda because I ended up on auto ship monthly and am way over stocked. I talked to the woman who runs the Cherub Foundation (for Apraxia) and she is such a strong believer that the stuff is magical. She strongly suggested I up his dose and see what happens. She said, try it for a week. Take him off all other things and up his dose and call me with what happens. She went on and on about how the stuff has stopped kids seizures, cured kids of autism, apraxia, etc. So I thought, what the heck. I'll try upping it. Will do that for a week and then try to take him off other supplements the week after that with the upped dose. Want to change one thing at a time. We'll see what happens. Did it a couple days ago and the new sign is a good "sign" :-)

We were supposed to begin our new speech therapy last Friday but I couldn't go in with my flu so hopefully... we will be able to begin tomorrow. If I can get Ian and I off the extreme cough today.