Ooo, ear infections!!! I don't feel like I have that, I think it settled into my sinus'. Either are very miserable, I feel so bad for you and yours to have to be sick with those things!!!
One thing we took for the coughing, Mucinex {sp}. Picked some up at Target, I think it was not the more expensive brand, and, it worked great. I was really worried about what to take, I know sometimes if you take the wrong medicine at the wrong time, you end up more sick. But, that didn't happen with that, my chest is clear. The Mucinex would kill the cough and somehow {although I didn't think it was supposed to} also cleared my nasal passages. I was tempted to continue taking it after the cough subsided but then I thought it would be a overmedicating and switched....can't remember to what though. Not that I would advise it, since it then went to a sinus infection.
Snowflake, glad to hear the workload lightened up. I'm at home, thank goodness, but of course, issues here, too. But, not work!!
Early morning TMI, just watch the color of those goobers.....