Feel very, very sick mama

A couple months ago Duncan started acting just generally sick and miserable, but his weirdest symptom was he wouldn't walk or really even move, and whenever we picked him up to move him he cried out like it hurt. Two trips to the pediatrician, a visit to the ER and a transfer to Childrens Hospital later, we finally discovered he had gotten a bacterial infection in the lymph nodes in one of his hips. After two days of IV antibiotics every 8 hours he was back to his old self, and they sent us home with a prescription for oral antibiotics to continue for 10 days.

The only problem was the antibiotics they wanted him on tasted HORRIBLE, and he couldn't swallow the pills, so we had to break open the pills and mix it with something and try and force feed it to him. We tried applesauce, jello, orange juice, and cranberry juice, but every dose involved LOTS of tears, and having to scoop the medicine back into his mouth as he spit it out and trying to force him to swallow it.

I talked to his pediatrician, and she said the taste of that particular medicine seems to be masked best by chocolate, so I went to the store and bought a bottle of chocolate syrup and a bag of chocolate chips, and the result was magic. We would give him 2 chocolate chips, then a spoonful of chocolate syrup with the medicine mixed in, and then 2 more chocolate chips after. He still grimaced a bit at the medicine, but the excitement of eating the chocolate made up for it, and he would ask for his medicine instead of screaming "NO!" when we brought it out.

Since then he has gone to the fridge and brought me the bottle of chocolate syrup several times, and told me it was time to take medicine. I have always just told him his medicine was all gone, and put it away, but today for some reason I just gave him a little syrup on a spoon and let him eat it. After he was done he sat there with his spoon for a while, then he went back to the fridge, got out the bottle, and carried it over to me and said "Duncan feel very, very sick mama. Need two more medicine".

I had to laugh.