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Welcome back to We are the Hansens. Today, we're diving
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into every big family's nightmare when sickness takes down the
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entire household at once. Whether it's the flu, a stomach bug,
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or a nasty cold, it's a challenge to keep things
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running while everyone is under the weather. If you've ever
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had multiple kids sick at the same time, or worse,
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been sick yourself while trying to take care of them,
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you know exactly how tough things can be. It usually
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starts with one person, you know, a sniffle, a caw,
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or that dreaded mom my stomach hurts. The moment we
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suspect illness, we jump into prevention mode. It's almost like
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wildfire in our house. When one person gets it, it
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just goes right down the line, and at the very end,
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everybody's sick. At the same time, you're still not out
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of the woods. You either just got it and it
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just goes to the next person in there. Then they
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get it, and just on and on and on. We
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start with hand washing to make that our top priority.
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A lot of hand washing. We remind everyone constantly to
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wash their hands, sanitizing everything I go through and sanitize
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door handles, the remote anything else that gets touched a lot,
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the handles on the sinks, the shower handles, wiping walls down.
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I do everything just to stop it in its tracks.
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It doesn't always work. I'm gonna tell you that separating
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the sick from the healthy when possible, it doesn't always happen.
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It sometimes runs so fast there's no way, So that's
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a challenging one. And then we stock up on a
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lot of essentials like tissues and gatorade, a lot of water,
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easy to digest foods, soup, crackers. We also get the
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vitamin C drink that really does help. I know people
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some don't believe in that, but I'm telling you, with
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the amount of kids we've had, it works. It definitely
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does a world of difference. Despite our best efforts. Sometimes
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it spreads so quick when everyone, including us as parents,
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are sick. It's all about survival. Some of our go
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to strategies may include like designing sick areas bedrooms bedrooms.
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If you're sick, go to your room. Like I said,
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it does not always work that way. We try to
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make sure there's blankets and buckets, you know, for stomach bugs,
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easy access to whatever, the kids need water, gatorade, whatever
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it might be. We end up having to lower expectation
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in our house when everybody is sick, like dishes might
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pile up and laundry might have to wait, and that's okay.
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The goal is to get through it and get everyone
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healthy again. Easy meals when everybody's sick, A lot of toast,
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a lot of soup, crackers, apple sauce, them types of
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foods become our best friends. Jello, whether it be liquid jello,
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like fresh warm jello that hadn't been put in the
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fridge yet, or the cups of jello. You know that
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stuff is good for you. Hydration is always the key.
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We push a lot of water, pedialyte, broth just to
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keep everyone from getting dehydrated. That can be a struggle too,
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because sometimes when you're that sick, you don't want to eat,
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you don't want to drink because you don't want to
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end up getting sick. It's a very big process, very
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big process. This is the hardest part. How do we
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care for a full house of sick kids when you're
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sick yourself. We get a lot of questions about that,
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because who wants to take care of sick people when
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they're sick themselves. Well as parents, that is our responsibility
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to make sure our kids are taking care of first.
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The kids always get treated first. Me and my husband,
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we will tag team if possible. One will take that
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many kids and the other will take the remainder of
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the kids, or we alternate it just back and forth
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between him and I. Letting the older kids help. Even
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the younger kids can grab tissues or help bring water
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to them. You know, just depends depending on how sick
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they are. My little ones will help, the bigger ones
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will help. If we're that sick, the older ones and
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the little ones will definitely help. I remember being sick
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one time and I was so sick and so weak
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I could not get up without feeling so dizzy that
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I wanted to pass out. Here, I got my little
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Torn and my little Anna bringing me water, bringing me food,
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bring me yogurt, whatever they could, and kept coming in
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and asking if I was okay. It makes you feel
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good when your kids do that. I mean, they have
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such a kind heart that they'll jump in and help
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even when they're not feeling the best. And then if
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you need to, let you know, somebody else help or whatever.
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It's okay, give yourself some grace. Some illness has hit
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harder than others, and we keep an eye out for
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warning signs dehydration, high fevers that won't break, or difficulty breathing.
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We watch the kids very close with that stuff, because
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those three things can take you downhill quick. If one
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of the kids, or me or my husband seem worse
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than normal, we don't hesitate to call a doctor or
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make a trip to urgent care. We get it taken
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care of right away because when like I said, and
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high fevers and difficulty breathing, that will take you down fast,
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soul dehydration, so pushing fluids is a must. Once the
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worst is over, it's about slowly getting your life back
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to normal. It takes time. It really does take time.
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You know, reintroducing good food carefully because no one wants
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to clean up another mess, and you got to do
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it slow, deep cleaning the house. When I am done
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being sick and I am feeling much better, even if
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I'm still a little under the weather, but I feel great,
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or at least better than I was, I am that
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person that jumps into action right away and I deep clean,
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I wipe everything down the floors get mopped really good.
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You know, there is a process. I tend to be
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that parent as soon as everybody is just coming out
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of it, I'm scrubbing. As soon as everybody's done, and
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I know everybody's done, I'm scrubbing. I don't want to
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have it hit us again because it just spreads so
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fast and it's miserable for everyone in the home. We
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don't expect everything to be one hundred percent right away.
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You know there is. It's going to be messy, and
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we know this. If we're all sick, it's fine. The
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house can be a mess. We will deal with it
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when we all feel better. I try not to be
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that parent that if my kids are sick, I'm yelling
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at them to get up and help. They need the rest.
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When you are sick, you need that rest. You go,
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you lay down and you take a break. You just
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chill out sleep because sleep does help the body recuperate.
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It helps the body, you know, get back to its normal.
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If you're up running around and you're sick, you're not
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letting your body rest at all to help you start
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feeling better. So it's very good to have that rest.
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I always tell my kids eat light, especially if you
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have the stomach bug, because if you eat a whole
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bunch of food, you're just going to go in and
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get sick and it's not going to stay down. So
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eat something like soup. The broth and soup is so
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good for you. I try. That's when I'm the mom
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that when everybody is feeling under the weather, I'm cooking
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the soup. We do a lot of chicken noodle soup
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when the kids are sick, or we're sick, or you know,
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the whole house is sick. I try and do soup
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because it's so good when you're sick. Crackers there for
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a while. I remember torn and anim we're sick really
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bad one time, and couldn't get them to drink anything,
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and they were burning up. So I was literally taking
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a syringe syringing water into their mouth to get them
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at least to have some type of liquid in their mouth.
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We did temperature checks all the time, you know, to
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see what fevers were. I'd keep a log of all
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that kept down, who took what for medicines, you know,
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because you don't want to overdose on ibuprofen and tail
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and all, so you got to make sure that you
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know what you took, and sometimes when you're sick, you forget,
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so it's just best to just write it all down.
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When I say six zones, I don't mean that you've
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got to stay in your bedroom constantly, because you do not.
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If you want to come out and get fresh air,
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walk outside, sit on the back deck and get some
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fresh air. Fresh air is good when you are sick
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as well. I don't know it. Just breathing in that
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air it helps, especially if you're having a trouble. Breathing
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that fresh air helps. Screen Time is like survival mode.
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We've usually mindful of screen time, but on six days,
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the TV is sometimes our best friend who wants to
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just sleep. Sometimes you just need to relax and put
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on a movie, curl up in a blanket and just relax.
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I love that. We look for signs of dehydration, if
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they're not going to the bathroom, if they have dry
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lips or seam weak. We make sure they're getting enough fluids.
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Sometimes even with electrolyte drink on a in a medicine syringe.
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If they refuse to drink. That works, especially for the
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little ones, because sometimes they don't want nothing, and you're
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like you gotta take this medicine. It will make you
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feel better and they'll take it. That helps us a
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lot too, just recovery and getting back to normal once
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the worst is over. That recovery, your mode kicks in
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right away. And when you get on the mend and
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you're feeling great, it's amazing. And then you can catch
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up on you know, when you're sick, caught up on
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all your lost sleep. So now you have all kinds
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of energy and you're back to your normal self. Deep cleaning.
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I do that when I feel better because I got
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my energy back, I'm ready to go. And then a
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lot of times people will ask us, do you use
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home remedy medicine or do you go to Walmart or
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a pharmacy and pick up all kinds of medicine. We
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do a few different things. Sore throats and colds are
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usually done with in our home. Is a spoonful of
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honey and lemon and a little bit of water. Mix
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it together. You know, you got to squeeze your lemon
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into the honey and the water. Mix it and you
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don't have to put a lot of water, just enough
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to rense it down. You drink it. I'm telling you.
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That works amazing when you are sick with a cold
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or a sore throat. And then we drink a lot
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of like I said, the vitamin C called emergency, We
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get that and it seems like it works amazing as well,
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lots of orange juice. Depending on the situation, we might
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get like their flu or something like that. But usually
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none of the kids nor us like to take medicines,
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especially my little Anna, because she takes enough medicines already.
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She doesn't want to take anymore. To her, it's just
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why do I got to take more medicine? So it's
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not fun for her at all. So we try to
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stay clear of giving meds and we just try and
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come up with the home remedy stuff first. If we
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have to get on, like if one of the kids
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gets pneumonia or something like that, that's a different story,
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then they'll prescribe a mysteroid to help with getting it
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kicked quicker. But usually for the most part, we don't
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just go and buy a whole bunch of meds. We
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do take a lot of vitamins, so that does help
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us with not getting sick as much and just practicing,
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you know, hand washing and making sure that things are
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wiped down and disinfected at home and going into the
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store and disinfecting the cart handles. We know when we're
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out and about that we are running a risk of
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getting sick, and that's okay. We also can help prevent
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it a little bit by doing our part. We know
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obviously airborne illnesses, we're going to get that, but every
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time we get sick, we tell our kids we are
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building our immunity. Guys, this is how it works. So
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our kids really do know that if you're not washing
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your hands and you're not disinfecting shopping carts at Walmart,
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you're bound to get sick. You're bound to get sick anyway,
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with the breathing in when somebody's been in there sick
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and it's airborne, so you're bound to get sick. We
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just take it when we get it and we battle
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through it, and that's all we really can do. It
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is very troubling sometimes, but we make it work. We
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get through it. So at the end of the day,
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sickness happens in a big family. It's never just one
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person sick. Never The key to surviving the worst of
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it and knowing that in a few days even if
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they feel like the longest day's ever, life will get
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back to normal. What are your go to tips for
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handling sick days in your family. You can reach out
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