This morning I was seeing J and M off too school in the driveway. J was upset because he wanted to go with S in the car but M wanted to ride her bike. Anyway I tell them to "watch around the corners!" and "Don't ride fast" which is what J had just asked me to tell M to do. I say goodbye to hubby and head upstairs with T and I see that A is up, dressed, and ready to go to school! I was shocked and excited! In the few minutes I was outside and seeing the other two off and hubby to work...she had gotten up and got ready for school. Woohoo
Last night around midnight she was crying with an earache and moaned and cried and was so uncomfortable. I gave her tylenol which even after an hour didn't seem to work. Before going to bed I had put a cotton ball with a drop melaleuca oil in her ear and had rubbed oil in back of her ears as well. I put a bit more oil behind her ears and massaged gently, and I put a hot washcloth in a ziploc bag and had her lay her sore ear on it too.
What makes me so Darn excited is that I was a little sad last night that it seemed like she was getting worse last night, yet in the morning she was fine. Until this morning, it seemed the progression of more symptoms- only sore thoat to sore throat with cough and then sore throat, cough, AND earache! She came home on Friday, (which is a whole other blog entry) from Camp Erdman (Daddy went too....so so awesome that he goes with them on fieldtrips) and was a little stuffy. The next day she was more stuffy and sore throat. Went to school on Monday, seemed fine, but on Tuesday woke up with sore throat and her voice was hoarse. I thought to myself I will call the doc at 8am and see if I can get an apptmt. A while later I thought to myself, I should call Melissa and see if there is a way I can get some of the oils we've been chatting about (while we wait for our girls who are taking Tahitian and Hula from the same group). I figured why spend $15 copay and more money on prescriptions when all the doc will probably say is get rest, drink water, take these meds....especially cause she has no fever.
I called Melissa a while later and she brought Peppermint, Lemon, Frankincense, OnGuard, and Lavender doTerra oils over. I gave A Lemon with Honey for her sore throat and started treating her with OnGuard. Meanwhile, T has had a diaper rash, not severe, but bumpy enough to be concerned for several days. She hasn't had one for almost a year now. So I was treating with the usual: vaseline, or desitin, and even clotrimazole. But it would calm down and go back up and not really go away. I called Monique who is also into oils and she gave me the recipe for 2 drops lavender to 2Tablespoons coconut oil. I put the first application on at night before she went to bed with last diaper change. The next morning: rash practically gone!
Also during the next morning M wakes up with a stomache ache, runs to the toilet and has a big bowel movement and is moaning and complaining of tummyache. She says she needs to vomit runs to the toilet but just gags a little spit liquid and that was it. Coincidentally because I had the oils from the day before I tried the peppermint on her tummy and her feet. She felt way better within less than an hour and though I kept her home from school she didn't complain about her tummy anymore (but about being bored instead).
Back to "A" , now she has a cough, I FB'd Melissa and she gave me more info and I asked if I could pick up more oils. I picked up Breathe, Oregano, and Melaleuca, some capsules, and also picked up an book on essential oils. I treated A with Breathe, Oregano and Melaleuca throughout the day. So I was indeed disappointed when the earache came about because I was like, are the oils making her worse? I really wasn't looking forwarded to the Doc and yet ANOTHER dose of Amoxicillin for ear infection. My kids have had SO many doses of that pink stuff! Anyway, like I said at the beginning of this blog........she woke up this morning on her own after sleeping it a few minutes longer because I thought I would let her rest before seeing how she felt and calling the doctor and instead she WENT TO SCHOOL! I was SO Happy because I have been so excited the past two days as I have been reading and learning about essential oils and was hoping to avoid trip to Doc.
Its like a switch turned on and I'm really believing in this stuff. I grew up with Melaleuca and my Mom and Grandma use SunBreeze for their aches and pains but I didn't have any strong desire to get into the oils. I had several friends who invited me to several of the meetings in 2011 but I was never able to make it and though I was interested in seeing what it was all about I also knew about the MLM aspect of the business which made it less appealing. NOW, that this switch has literally SUDDENLY turned on, i am asking myself why now, and why wasn't I as interested before because they were close friends who were trying to introduce me to it. Whatever it is, I am excited, literally giddy, to learn and apply what I learn about these essential oils. I have a sister who has had severe kidney and bladder infections but is ALLERGIC to many if not most regualr anti-biotics. When I heard about the Oregano being a natural anti-biotic I was quite intrigued and that is one area I hope to look more into. Also, I am concerned about my aging parents who could use the oils for a number of things that I have read about in the past few days. Woot! Woot! Hooray for natural medicine. I am SO Stoked its silly. Yesterday Hubby said I was killing him but he didn't complain when i gave him a foot massage with lavender before going to bed:)!
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