So with all illness that took over my house the last couple of weeks, we have started this "First Aid Kit for Sickies" This has come in handy in the middle of night or early morning cries "Mom, I don't feel good."I am not sure about you, but sometimes (often times) when sickness starts to take over the house, Tylenol can end up not getting put back in the medicine cabinet. It might end up on the kitchen counter where it was given out last, or moved to a different bathroom. Sometimes the thermometer can end up in the weirdest places too. This has happened to us so many times. When the sickness took over last time it went like this --first Spirit got sick, then Lefty, pretty soon Lady Bug had it and then Mr. Man got something all together different than any of them!
I have now created the "First Aid Kit for Sickies"!!!
Picture this of a scenario BEFORE the carry-all creation:
Kid wakes up in the middle of the night. I get up with child. Need the thermometer and Tylenol but can't find it. Remember that we have had to use it in the last day or so for another sick child, but now no one remembers where it ended up. So I am looking upstairs while Mr. Man heads downstairs to look. We finally find the thermometer, but still can't find the Tylenol. After about 20 minutes we find the Tylenol. Now that Mr. Man and I have everyone settled back down in bed, we are wide awake from all the commotion of looking for things. An hour or so later, we are able to drift back off to sleep, only to be awoken again and start that chaos over again.
Now picture this AFTER the carry-all creation:
Kid wakes up in the middle of the night. I get up with child and head directly to medicine cabinet to grab "First Aid Kit for Sickies". Easily find thermometer and take kid's temperature. Yep, need to administer Tylenol so grab handy-dandy chart printed in big lettering and easily determine dosage amount. Get child settled back down into bed. Quietly get back into bed and easily fall back to sleep. Catch a few "zzzzzz's" before the next round of cries.
Instead of it being a 1/2 hour (or more) deal, it is roughly 10 minutes or so. Can you scream Time-Saver! Ya, baby!
You can see it is just a simple plastic container with a handle. As of right now, here is what is in my little carry-all kit: thermometer, several medicine dispensing spoons, Tylenol, a cold & cough medicine, some cough drops, a dosage chart I got from my doctor that I enlarged so the print is easier to read in the middle of the night, a small roll of toilet paper (for clean ups or nose blowing), a rag (for cleaning up a possible spill or possibly needing to give someone a cold rag for their head) and I recently added our pediatrician's phone number (typed up and taped to an index card in big lettering so it is easy to see at night!), a small flashlight (needed to see in the dark!), and also some hand sanitizer (for me!).
This carry-all is so easy to grab for those middle of the night cries. It is so easy to tote around, but yet contains everything I might need with a sick kid. When Spirit got sick a couple weeks ago we ended up just keeping the carry-all on his desk because we ended up in there so often during the night checking on his breathing and such. Then when the sickness subsided I stored it back in the medicine closet. I still have other medicines in the closet, but this carry-all contains things I might need with those middle of the night cries.
**FOR A DOSAGE CHART CLICK HERE**
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