Adam: I feel sick, I need some medicine
Me: What is wrong?
Adam: I feel sick, I need some medicine
Me: Yes, but what is wrong? What hurts? Where are you not feeling well*
* Very important not to ask leading questions like "does your tummy hurt" because the answer is usually yes to whatever body part you've pointed out.
Adam: I think I have got the fluid (I am assuming he means flu)
Me: Hmm, I don't think so. I don't think that is what is wrong with you. You need to tell me what type of sick you are feeling.
Adam: Well, what is the blue medicine for?
Me: Oh no, it doesn't work like that, you only have medicine when you are really sick and you are not sick.
Adam: Well, I have FLUID and I could DIE you know, I need some blue medicine.
I managed to persuade him that a sweet would make him feel better. What he has is the common or garden Pain-in-the-assness and blue medicine (Demazin - our medicine of choice) doesn't work for that.
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I wonder if Zack and Adam aren't really twins? They seem so connected on every level. Zack was having the exact same conversation with me this morning.
Posted by: Nina-Number-One | 30 August 2010 at 07:00 AM
oh, he is SO going to get serious manflu when he is, oh, i don't know, 13 maybe. he is a crack up.
Posted by: ruth | 30 August 2010 at 07:15 AM
LOL You should keep a "special pill bottle" for this type of "ailment"!
Posted by: MomAgain@40 | 30 August 2010 at 08:01 AM
I use the pegasus homeopathic calming pillules for my 'sick' 2.5 year old son... what is it with men???
Posted by: Nisey | 30 August 2010 at 08:18 AM
Goodness.... he's become a MAN!!!!
Posted by: adi | 30 August 2010 at 09:02 AM
Demazin.....its our fav too.
Man flu! It's in his genes!
Posted by: BiancaW | 30 August 2010 at 12:14 PM
I used to love Demazin! Not only for the fact that it would allow me to breathe after cat exposure...
Posted by: a | 30 August 2010 at 03:53 PM
Well well, another man!!!!! In our house we have blue moot (medicine), purple moot - mmmmhh I shouldn't say this but I love that one as it not only takes away fevers it also induces sleep!!!! Hee Hee !!!!!!!!! and then we have my all 100% favourite - Rescue Remedy- which in my house heals all including temper tantrums and mommy hissy fits!!!!!!!
Posted by: Alexa Ristow | 30 August 2010 at 04:32 PM
Ha, our medicine is red not blue, but the rest is the same. Of course it tastes like candy so they love it. (Just like the gummi bear vitamins.) Great when they need to take the medicine, not so great when you're trying to tell if they're malingering or what. All the same, I'd rather have the sweet stuff than try to force them to take something nasty-tasting.
What I want to know is, why can't they do the same thing for pets, fish-flavored pills or whatever? (I know, some are. But most aren't, and after pilling a cat for a week recently, I was very irritable about this.)
Posted by: Laurel | 30 August 2010 at 07:03 PM
Ah HA! Yes, my son is 4 and we go through the same thing with purple or pink medicine. What happened to medicine that tastes like medicine? Doesn't that motivate them to get better faster? LOL!
Same thing with toothpaste! When I was growing up, the only flavor was mint. Now they have berry, bubblegum, tutti fruiti... I've been trying to get my son used to the mint. Sometimes he complains, but he does agree that his mouth feels "refreshed" afterwards. OMG! Kids!
Posted by: Anna | 30 August 2010 at 11:42 PM
HAHAHA! OK, I am glad my kids aren't the only weirdos who beg for medicine even if they aren't sick. And mine are all girls!
Posted by: Christine | 31 August 2010 at 03:06 PM
I'd be concerned if my kids asked for medicine! I guess the meds they've had don't taste good.
Posted by: Stefanie | 31 August 2010 at 05:02 PM
My 3 year old also loves medicine - Strawberry medicine (Calpol) is her ultimate favourite but she will literally swallow anything. Quite amazing, and a bit alarming I hated medicine so much that I started drinking pills very early on.
Posted by: Katherine | 31 August 2010 at 10:00 PM
When I was little and sick 60 years ago my Mom gave me crushed aspirin mixed with sugar and water in a spoon- there was no baby aspirin. I remember is still very fondly because it was mixed with her love I think the best medicine is just a Mom's caring mixed with medicine.
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Posted by: Cathy Cress MSW | 01 September 2010 at 05:20 AM
My kids love infant tylenol, even Anna (who really can't talk well) will ask for tylenol. John does fake sick (like on the first day of school, he wanted me to take him home.)
Medicine didn't taste as good when I was a kid!
Posted by: jane | 03 September 2010 at 04:27 PM