Freewrite Prompt: medicine

I have been a very obedient medicine taker my whole life. I hardly object and I just swallow down whatever is given to me, regardless how good or bad the taste is. Of course there are some medicine I particularly like the taste and especially detest antibiotics taste but I won't protest.

However, when I got pregnant, Aargh!!!! It's the worst thing to do, especially when I need to swallow pills down, whether medicine or good supplements for the baby. I experience it in both of my pregnancies, I always feel like the pills get stucked in my throat, though they aren't. I constantly feel like my esophagus got shallow and the passage has become smaller.

So taking medicine is a chore now. I try to avoid taking medicine as much as I can but I still have to take supplements such as folic acid and multi vitamins for the development of the baby. Thus, I try to swallow down with a lot of water.

My son has big problems with taking medicine. He doesn't always fall sick so he doesn't get to "practise" taking them a lot. Whenever he is sick, it is super difficult for us to make him take the medicine, whether by syringe or spoon, he would put up a very tough fight. Hence the best I try to do is to keep him from being sick and strengthen his immune system. I have tried to mix his medicine with yakult drink, if the smell is not too strong and it is colourless. If it is his paracetamol, he can always detect so my plan will fail.

So much so for medicine. I will try to opt for alternative medicine or home remedies whenever I can because I find some western medicine make our bodies feel weaker after consumption.

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Freewrite is a prompt writing initiated by @mariannewest and @improv to write a free-flow post without correcting or editing. I checked out her post to really get what it is before I jumped on the bandwagon. Basically, there is no right or wrong, just let the mind and fingers do their work, to find our creative self and let it come out of us.

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