Lesson Learned

Last night, I brought up my cough medicine and placed it by my bookshelf so I can take it before bedtime. Gideon and I sat side by side on the couch near the bookshelf. Out of the blue, Yohan handed me 3 origami cranes. I'm proud of it. I was busy setting up the rest to take pictures and suddenly heard a "gulp". I knew what it was and started panicking. Gideon May have accidentally ingested my cough medicine. His mouth had blue syrup which was the color of the medicine. My mind was in a blur and couldn't remember whether the bottle was opened or not since I immediately grabbed the bottle.

I wiped his mouth and gave him water immediately. I called poison control and was instructed to measure what's left of the medicine to estimate how much he ingested.

Good thing it's a brand new bottle and I only opened it the night before.

It seemed he really didn't ingest anything. Thank God.

While all these were happening, Yohan asked me what could happen if a child took a medicine double the dose. I answered direct to the point "they could die". She was quiet. She then asked "mom, do you think it's indirectly my fault because I distracted you with my origami?" How could she ask that?
I answered "no, it's my fault I wasn't watching him".

Lesson learned.