By Heather O.

1. Ditto.

   Comment #1 by MicheleFebruary 15th, 2009 at 8:05 am

2. Absolutely. This is why I am at home blogging and not at church.

   Here’s a tip for church building clean-up. It was our turn to clean the building yesterday and my brilliant friend brought a can of lysol and sprayed down ALL of the door handles and pretty much everything in the nursery she could get her hands on. Pure Genius. Her comment? God can only help those who help themselves.

   Comment #2 by amylouwhoFebruary 15th, 2009 at 8:52 am

3. You forgot about trying to find subs every other Sunday. ugh

   Comment #3 by DaveFebruary 15th, 2009 at 9:00 am

4. Yes. We’ve been up to our eyeballs in amoxicillin lately and I’m so done with trips to the doctor. Yuck yuck yuck. Sometimes I wish January and February could be wiped from the year. Not really good for much in my opinion. (I guess I’m a little bitter that we got to spend our Valentine’s date last night at Stake Conference. So romantic!)

   Comment #4 by StarababaFebruary 15th, 2009 at 9:09 am

5. Nope. But, then, Sandra and I are empty-nesters (insert mildly taunting dance). Now we just get to watch our kids (nine, five married) deal with this with their kids (twelve). Heh. ..bruce..

   Comment #5 by bfwebsterFebruary 15th, 2009 at 9:29 am

6. Yes, only this year it hit the grown-ups, too. DH got strep, then I got strep, then I got bronchitis, then the boys both got nasty coughs and fevers… We will all be better soon (this is what I repeat to myself over and over).

   Comment #6 by Mrs. MFebruary 15th, 2009 at 10:08 am

7. Oh. Yeah.

   This week, humidifiers going constantly, vicks on the feet, snot everywhere, Bean barfing in the living room, Jeff missing three days of school, Abby yacking and coughing all night… fun fun fun.

   Comment #7 by Tracy MFebruary 15th, 2009 at 12:43 pm

8. Does Vicks on the feet work? I heard about this remedy last week and laughed, but if it works, I’m all ears.

   Comment #8 by WendyP.February 15th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

9. I actually tried vicks on the feet last year when I had the cough-that-won’t=go-away. I did it at night and dang, it did help the cough calm down so I could sleep. 1 hour of coughing away without it vs. about twenty minutes of gradually diminishing coughs with it. Put socks on over your feet after you put it on. It may not work for everyone, but I like it better than trying to suck ona cough drop while going to sleep. I’m always afraid I’m going to choke on it.

   Comment #9 by mormonhermitmomFebruary 15th, 2009 at 2:52 pm

10. I say AMEN to the Vick’s on the feet. Works really well for me. I even sneak it on hubby’s feet when he is sick. It is hard to put socks on grown man when he is sleeping (and probably when he is awake. I’ve never tried that!)

    Comment #10 by LisaCFebruary 15th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

11. Vicks on the feet does work. Not 100%, but it does help. I’ve used it on little people as well as myself. It helps get through a night of coughing, especially in this day and age when cough medicine has been yanked for tiny people.

    I’d actually TOTALLY forgotten about it. I’m going to try it on J tonight. Although, last time he kept complaining that his feet were getting too hot, so maybe I put too much on? Anybody have a thought about how much to use?

    Comment #11 by Heather O.February 15th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

12. Here’s what Snopes said about vicks on the feet

    Comment #12 by Heather O.February 15th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

13. Ok, then. We’re all healthy here. {{crossing fingers}}

    Comment #13 by The WizFebruary 15th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

14. Oh yes.

    I cannot believe the sicknesses we’ve been through. Colds, coughs, fevers, strep throat, body aches, puking, you name it, we’ve had it this past month or two. I’ve Lysoled, used antibacterial wipes, run bedding and towels through the sanitary cycle on the washer, to no avail. We cannot get better, it seems! I’ve had a kid home sick every day for the past three weeks, except for one miraculous day when they all went to school!!LOL

    Comment #14 by BFebruary 15th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

15. I hear ya…we have been dealing with sickness off and on since oh the Beginning of December. From bronchitis, to Pneumonia, to ear infections, to strep, to FINALLY mom and dad feeling better plus the boys being pretty healthy. I have had to be very diligent in keeping up with their asthma maintenance medication and their Singular. I pray that we can stay healthy for awhile. Lysol, disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer are my best friends. I tell my husband that eventually we will get to go to church..you know…when it’s spring….

    Comment #15 by katie EFebruary 15th, 2009 at 7:02 pm

16. Yes, thanks for asking. And when you live in the great white North, it seems like winter last for 9 months. It bites. Hope you feel better to know others feel your pain.

    Comment #16 by Steph @ Diapers and DivinityFebruary 15th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

17. I’ve been amazed, but no one in our family has been sick this entire winter except for a couple of very mild sniffly noses. I keep waiting for it all to hit at once–it seems too good to be true, and I keep thinking that any moment now the flue or strep throat or SOMETHING will come crashing down on us.

    Comment #17 by eljeeFebruary 15th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

18. We always get hit in March, or even April. It seems like the flu shots we get in October wear off and then we catch the flu, right when others are getting over it. It’s really pathetic being sick in the spring.

    Comment #18 by WendyP.February 15th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

19. I Vicksed my kids feet tonight. Maybe it’s a wives tale, but heck, it certainly won’t hurt!

    Comment #19 by Tracy MFebruary 16th, 2009 at 12:08 am

20. My two youngest actually just had a horrible nasty week-long stomach flu (one right after the other). I had to take the baby (12 months) to the ER for fluids by the time it was over.

    Luckily, nobody else caught it. No colds here either. Yet.

    Sorry so many of you are having it so rough. Our week and a half of puking/blow-out diarrhea, listless little ones was bad enough.

    Comment #20 by FairchildFebruary 16th, 2009 at 9:10 am

21. I’m glad I’m not the olny one. I was beginnin to think my kis and I had some sort of Immune Deficiency (sp?) or something ultra scary since we are literally sick allthe time!

    Comment #21 by mellocelloFebruary 16th, 2009 at 11:09 am

22. Your singing the story of my life.

    My 2 year old has lung disease and is on oxygen, so you can imagine the horror that cold and flu season brings to our house. It is not safe for my son to go to nursery, ever, so we go to an empty room and let him play in there for an hour, and then we take him to Elders/RS. Sometimes I wonder why we bother going. He won’t go to sunbeams either, I will probably just do an individual class for him. The baby won’t be allowed to go either.

    I find it extremely frustrating that people go super sick to church. If everyone would quit going sick, we all would stay much healthier. But instead everyone (or nearly everyone) drags there sick, coughing, sneezing. sniffling butts to church and infect everyone else.

    We as a family do not go sick. That meant I missed three weeks in a row in January. Last year with the horrible RSV and Flu going on we didn’t even take the kids to church from January til March. Thankfully the Flu Season is not as bad this year.

    We also inflict Synagis shots (for RSV) on my son, basically torturing him once a month, but when his little sister managed to get RSV this year, he barely got sick at all, so thank goodness for the shots.

    We don’t let him play with other children, we don’t take him to places with a lot of people, I haven’t taken him into McDonalds since he was a baby.

    The stress and Panic attacks that I have gone through, desperatly trying to keep my two year old out of the hospital, has weighed me down, so much, I wonder if I will ever be normal again.

    One thing we have found is the product NOZIN. I use it on my 6 year old before she goes to school. That and she brings bottled water to school and has strict instructions to constantly wash her hands, that has really helped her from bringing home one cold after another. (although the 2 days I forgot, she managed to bring home RSV, nice).

    We use vicks on there chest when the 6 year old has a non productive cough and got steroids in the medicine cabinet for the croupy cough.

    Comment #22 by SarahFebruary 16th, 2009 at 11:38 am

23. Wow! That all sounds rotten. A few years ago, I got started down the “natural” path. Never would have thought I’d become a natural freak, but there ya go! Now I am! I am a total believer in Young Living Essential Oils. They have some amazing and incredibly effective oils and I rub my kids down regularly and diffuse it in the sir daily. Zero major sicknesses in the last 2 years, and every time we catch something, it doesn’t last long. I have 4 kids- age 2,3,5 and 7, so you’d think they’d catch everything, but they don’t. I am telling you- Young Living Essential Oils!

    Comment #23 by RebeccaFebruary 17th, 2009 at 7:13 am

24. Oh, I don’t miss those years! My youngest is 4 and we don’t have ear infections and all the stuff that goes with them being young. Hang in there. When they get older, it gets better!

    Comment #24 by CamilleFebruary 17th, 2009 at 8:40 am

25. Yeah, our family went through a round of influenza, despite all getting the flu vaccine. “Luckily”, the non-vaccine strain was not resistant to tamiflu, if you want to call it luck that we got the non-vaccine strain. This time nursery wasn’t to blame… dad brought it home from a bishopric meeting is our best guess.

    But this isn’t actually why I’m writing. I’m just dying to know, why Vicks on Feet? Why not on the throat and chest? Do the kids not like it on their chest? I’m missing something here….

    Comment #25 by Joy TFebruary 17th, 2009 at 10:08 pm

26. Oh, and Sarah, while I absolutely agree with you about sick people at church, flu is contagious for up to 48 hours before you even show symptoms… and then for another 5 days after, during which you’re so miserable you’re stuck in bed and probably only infecting your family at that point.

    Comment #26 by Joy TFebruary 17th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

27. And I understand when your contagious with the flu, however you are most likely to spread it when your coughing and sneezing.

    I think most adults are smart enough to stay home with the flu, however they seem to have no issues pumping there kids up with tylenol and dragging there sick butts to church, because they have this or that calling and can’t miss it.

    People do not understand that they put people like my child at risk.

    Comment #27 by SarahFebruary 18th, 2009 at 12:19 am

28. Joy, I didn’t know that the flu was contagious for 5 days afterwards. J is doing just fine on the Tamiflu, but we are keeping him home because I don’t want him infecting other kids at school. He is going bonkers staying in the house. Me too.

    And I just figured Vicks on the feet rather than the throat and chest because it lasts longer on the feet? I dunno, really. It also just feels really good. Something about reflexology? I did use it on J the other day (throat and chest), and he was thoroughly grossed out. I had to wipe it off.

    Comment #28 by Heather O.February 18th, 2009 at 9:04 am

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