Goopy Eyes

You may have noted that I have not posted anything for 2 weeks now--there is a reason for that. The kids have been sick for the last 2 weeks. Not just sick, but sick with complications, as is usually the case with our asthmatic and allergy ridden stock. I'll admit it, it comes from my side of the family--but, while we may be ill, at least we're dominant.
So anyways, it all started when Benson got a cough on Friday the 12th. Kayla came down with it on Sunday. Then about a week in, when normal children would have started to get better, things took a turn for the worse. Kayla woke up with "goopy eyes", more commonly known as "conjunctivitis" or in layman's terms "pink eye". The only way I could get her to let me clean the green bugars expelling from her tear ducts was to tell her that worms would grow in her eyes if she didn't let me. Since this worked for her eyes, I told her if she didn't also blow her nose that the same consequences applied. Then of course, Benson got the goop too. There is nothing more disgusting or more horrifying to a germ-o-phobe like me than goopy eyes. My hands are now dry and crackley from the 100 washings a day.
As if this weren't bad enough, Benson spent two nights screaming bloody murder and was totally inconsolable. Ear infection. We got him on antibiotics on Friday and he is morphing back into my chubby smiling ball.
Kayla meanwhile is on a new treatment from her homeopathic doctor which includes no foods with artificial colors or preservatives, everything organic, fresh produce only, soy milk when she has a cold, and Pulsatilla (a homeopathic remedy for her goopiness). Of course, the first night she was on this treatment she woke up and puked up a ball of phlegm. The doctor said that was a good sign, it was doing it's job of expelling the phlegm from her system--that it was...
Both kids are on crazy allergy and asthma drugs. I say "crazy" mostly because it makes them "crazy", and in turn makes me "crazy". The goal, with the help of our homeopathic doctor, Meenakshi Bhargava (but we call her Meena), is to wean them off of these poison drugs and let their systems heal themselves naturally. It all makes perfect sense really--it does make me a little bit sick when I think about all the crap we consume daily without a thought. We've all heard Dr. Oz say it--"if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it". However, Ryan is wincing at the cost of the new lifestyle as "Meena" is not covered by insurance and we now shop at Whole Foods.
Today is Sunday--it's been 2 weeks and 2 days since I have had any more than 2 hours of uninterrupted sleep. I didn't know that it was possible for a human to function with this little sleep...