It is so frustrating when your kids get sick. Not just because you are worried about them, but for time management purposes. In my house it means DH and I get to play the -- "who has the more important day today" game. Usually it means we split -- one goes to our morning meeting while the other stays home, and at lunch we switch. If we have enough notice, it means a call to my MIL who is our lifesaver. She is retired and lives nearby, and will often fill in when we just can't be home.
My 6-month old has recently been hospitalized -- first with RSV over Christmas, then with walking pneumonia (nevermind the irony that he can't walk yet) in January. During those times I have dropped everything to stay with him in the hospital. Work has been very agreeable (especially when this last time I discovered the hospital room had wireless internet for a small fee!), but it feels like I just got back into the swing of things (from returing from maternity leave in November) and boom -- I'm back out of it. ARgghh.
Now I am just completely consumed by trying to keep him well, and stressed by why he is getting sick. My peditrician had the gall to suggest he get a test for cystic fibrosis -- way to stress a person out! Since then we have realized 1) we have no family history (its a very genetically linked disease); 2) I had a CVS when pregnant that tested for it and came back negative; and 3) he doesn't taste like salt. Yes, I licked him to check. But I still need to schedule the test asap just to make sure. Then we need to follow up with a pediatric pulminologist and an allergist/immunologist. In my spare time. I mean, this is health-related, so we will drop everything to do it, but sometimes I think my life is simply too insane.
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