With Fall upon us many kids will come home with a bad cough, runny nose, sneezes and of course the fever. What’s a mom or dad to do during times like this?
Plenty of soup and vitamin C is definitely on the list of good things to add to your child’s daily schedule but what happens when that isn’t enough?
Every year parents have to deal with the common cold and flu symptoms and worry about the time off they’ll have to need to take care of their child. But with the swine flu outbreak earlier this year now taking a front …read more

It has been five weeks since my son came home from school with strep throat. But somehow the virus must have lingered maybe on his backpack or his toothbrush or his delicate skin because this weekend the same virus leveled me. When my son comes down with a cold or fever, I expect to catch his ailment. I usually don’t, which I credit to a healthy immune system that built up strength when as a kid I tangled with a variety of mud, germs and lake water. Besides, people are most contagious up to two to three days before they …read more

The last two weeks we’ve been working on one thing at home…getting better. How many of you all have to deal with the old saying, “When one gets sick, they all get sick”?  I don’t know about you, but for my family this is very true.  Course we are more digitized, which makes one go a bit batty when they begin looking up all the symptoms. As we all know, some symptoms show up in all types of diseases and sicknesses.
First, Little A (he just turned 2) came down with pink eye, before that though they all had something else.  Pink eye seems to be …read more

If you’re running a business at home as I do, you can’t pick up the phone and call in sick (or mentally challenged). You have to drag your sorry, sick behind into your office and try to get work done.
But here’s the thing…I thought that when I became my “own boss”, that those old feelings of guilt would disappear. You know what I mean, you’d call in sick (legitimately), spend the day in bed, watching Food Network — $40 A Day is on A-Gain! — but while you were supposed to be resting, you’d feel horrible for having taken the …read more