Over the past 8 weeks our everyone in our family has caught one sickness after another, it started with just before Christmas I got what we like to call lungalfungalosis (it is not a scientific name, I am not sure that is how you would spell it if it was) it is an awful cough were there is so much mucus stuck in you body that when you cough all you spit up is snot. Your throat hurts and it is just terrible.
But this is just the beginning, the next week Mia got a fever and had new teeth coming here. Bonnie was not here she was on a work trip and Mia was going crazy without here mommy.
While Bonnie was on here trip she got also terrible cough and fever. Also in that time my dad got mild food poisoning. When bonnie was gone I was recovering. One day I went to school I was sick all over again. By the time Bonnie got back from her trip we were all sick nobody could do anything.
Slowly bonnie got better first then me my dad and finally poor Mia who just always just catches whatever we have. Again and again we have had repeated colds, coughs, food poisoning, ect. I think we have had all of the types of common basic sicknesses. This week I got mild food poisoning I don't we're from but it hurt, I am glad it is just mild.
I have also come to realize that Spanish medicine is not what we call medicine in America. Spain is not the best place for medicine.
American medicine is syrup has every drug and chemical and is flavored with all kinds of artificial flavors and crazy stuff and might actually taste ok or you have the tablets that one swallow and your finish. You’re cured for about 2-8 hours. No, no, no not in Spain the medicine is very gross it tastes worse then what you would expect. The ibuprofen for kids is called Dasly this very gross orange syrup with a horrible taste. When mia was sick she had to take it and would just spit out I was always like oh come on it can't be that bad until I had to have it myself then I realized how bad it is. Also most of the medicines pharmacies give you with no prescription are homeopathic so they don't always work.
Of course just as everyone really got super sick we ran out of that great American stuff.
by the way we used a lot of hand sanitizer!
I can't wait not to be sick again. Summer please come!
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