Chapter 5: Allergies
"Achoo!" Sassette sneezed.
Snappy carefully wiped the baby's runny nose. The twins had been sneezing all morning and Slouchy and Snappy were really worried. Just then Nat sneezed.
"Achoo!" he sneezed as Slouchy then wiped up his nose.
They had rashes and a slight difficulty breathing as well. The two adults then looked at each other in realization that this might not just be another small cold that infants get so very often. Fearing the worst they urgently picked up the sneezing infants and headed to Papa Smurf's house. Once there Papa Smurf put them on a table to examine them. After a very close examination he asked the two adult smurfs some questions.
"Have you changed anything such as what you are feeding them or anything?" the red capped elder asked politely.
The two thought about this for several seconds before answering
"No, I don't think so." Slouchy told him, "Wait we did plant some daisies in the windowsills because the twins enjoyed looking at them. Do you think that's why they've been sneezing?"
"It might very well be. I'm going to do an allergy test on them; can you please keep them still?" the bearded smurf then asked.
The two younger smurfs nodded as they then each held one of the infants in place while Papa Smurf carefully got a drop of each substance he had pre-labeled on each baby. He then went to get some things from another room. After about ten minutes he came back to see if they were having a controlled allergic reaction. Just as he expected they had. One of the things the two were allergic to was indeed the flower pollen. Well at least the flower pollen from that kind of flower. Papa Smurf then gave them a short list of the types of flowers they were allergic to and some medicine for the infants to take each morning so they could be around those flowers. He also asked that they replace the daisies in the windowsill with some flowers that they were not allergic to. Then the four went back to the bunkhouse. Once there they realized somebody needed to watch the two while they replaced the flowers, hopefully without killing them. Just then Sorcerer came in.
"Sorcerer, thank goodness you're here! We were wondering if you could take the twins out for an hour or two while we make it safer for them to be here." Snappy asked.
"Sure, come on you two, let's go spend some time outside!" he said enthusiastically to two youngest smurfs.
He then picked the two up and headed out the door. Just then Slouchy spoke up.
"Snappy, did you give the twins their medicine?" he asked nervously thinking of what could happen if he didn't.
"No, I thought you did!" he replied now beginning to catch on to what this might mean for the two one year olds.
"Uh oh, well at least you gave Sorcerer the list of their allergies so they won't get to close to areas with those." Slouchy said which was followed by Snappy gulping realizing just how terrible this could be, "Wait you did give him the list, right?"
Snappy shaked his head no and started the two started to panic.
"I'll bring him their medicine and the list of the things they are allergic to. You stay here and finish replacing the daisies." Snappy said as he grabbed the medicine and list and ran out the door.
He soon found them with Sorcerer just about to go in a patch of flowers. Not any flowers though, daisies!
"NO!" Snappy screamed in the nick of time.
After explaining what was going on and about the allergies Snappy gave the two sneezing smurfs their medicine. Within a few minutes they had stopped sneezing and everything was back to normal.