That tastes really yucky!

Jesus and Adelaine

It proved to be a challenge just to get cold medicine down the children when they were sick. Now we were faced with getting a 2 ½ year old to take all kinds of unflavored bad tasting medications down daily for several years!

Chemo comes to us in a non chewable pill form. In the beginning, we would cut and crush the pills by hand.. Then the Mayhews introduced us to a little gadget called a pill crusher and a cutter! (Peyton Mayhew is Adelaine’s friend who was also diagnosed with ALL Leukemia in July.) When they would cut Peyton’s pill, half the pill would go flying across the kitchen floor, the same with us. Only, their dog would sniff it out and, well, let’s just say they didn’t want their dog’s hair to all fall out, so they found a better way!

Next we had to figure out how to get it down her without such a huge protest! We tried others’ suggestions, but we had to find what would work for her. We tried mixing it with peanut butter, chocolate syrup, jelly, and pudding, just to name a few. All were vetoed! Then we went back to the basic mixing it with juice and forcing it down with a syringe which really didn’t work well either.

Now we mix the powder with a little apple juice. She drinks it from a Dixie cup with a coffee stir straw! She always crinkles up her nose and expresses how yucky it is, but she does take it and without too much fuss!

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