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Originally Posted by bohemama  DD1 doing something like this is a new skill she's developed recently. We've had fights about things like this before that were way worse. What helped is she remembers having an abscessed tooth about 7 months ago and how bad that was. She remembered that the medicine (abx) she had to take for that was awful but it helped her to get better quickly. When I explained that this would help her not to ever have to go through that again she jumped on board pretty quickly. I think if we hadn't had that experience some months ago the FCLO would have been a bigger fight today.
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LOL! Oddly enough, this was the fight I was referencing..at this point, if she refuses, I simply don't fight her..if she wants to suffer in pain, or with a sinus issue or cough, etc, well..okay. But she recently had a badly abcessed tooth and she HAD to take some antibiotics. We went through 2 of the episodes I mentioned, literally physically holding down a hysterical, fighting, screaming child, and still couldn't get any medicine in her...and since she HAD to take some, i was at my wits end..i actually called the doctor and asked her if she could just give dd an injection, because I knew that while it would suck, and she would fight so awfully and be so pissed after, at least once the injection was in, the medicine would be in her, and she wouldn't be able to throw it back up, and it would only be ONCE we'd have to have that fight, not 3X a day for 10 days = 30 awful fights resulting in little or no medicine in her.
Unfortunately, our doc called back and said her supply of pennicilin was expeired, so we couldnt do the injection...I begged for ANY other option, and we tried the pennicilin pills, which I ground up and put in some applesauce, and dd tolerated them!! I was so thankful, because I don't know what I would have done otherwise. she is...challenging.
