Poor Kid!

I am having major flashbacks from a couple years ago.  My son who was 8 years old at the time was repeatedly contracting strep.  He would do a coarse of antibiotics and as soon as he finished the bottle of medicine he would have strep again.  I have learned over the years of being a mother how extremely hard antibiotics are on your body.  I only give my children antibiotics for strep.  It is to hard to try to get over on your own.  At least my children don't get over it on their own.  I swear Mikey would drink strep for lunch at school!  I started almost blaming the school for not having a clean environment.  How could he keep getting the same virus over and over?  Do I blame the parents sometimes....to be honest yes.  I fill like some parents use school as a day care facility.  They have to work, their children are sick but who cares.  They send them anyway. Those children can be someone else's problem while they go to work.  Not fair!

Now, fast forward 2 years to my younger son Joey, same grade, same problem, same stress.  This is when I scream, ahhhhhhhh.   He has had strep 5 times in three months.  On top of that he had chicken pox after having all his immunizations.  His immune system is wasted! Mikey got his tonsils out in 2013 and now it is Joey's turn in 2015.  I try to do the least amount of medical possible.  I was really nervous to get Mikey's tonsils out but it has done wonders for him.  I am certain it will do the same for Joey.