Meds and suckers

Lucy has been on some kind of medication her whole life and has gotten very used to taking a lot of medicine through a syringe.  She is to the point where she will take anything willingly all the time, so when we had to change her to a different antibiotic on Monday (the other one wasn't getting rid of the infection), I didn't believe the doctor that Lucy would have a hard time taking this medicine.  Well, our doctor was definitely right on this one... it's chalky and super nasty smelling and looking.  She knows what it is and will do everything she can to not take it.  I went back to the tricks of our old days and made her lay down while I squeezed her cheeks and squirted it to the back side of her mouth.  Tonight though, she somehow managed to spit half of it out of her mouth, so I was frantically scooping it back in with all of my fingers and making her take it.  I consider this medicine my ticket to sleep, so I wanted to make sure she took it all!  She wasn't too upset at me about it though, thankfully, and I promised her a treat.  The sucker sure made up for it!

When I told her to lay down on the floor for her medicine, this is what she did.  Haha!  See the white nastiness around her mouth?  Yuck.