Sep 27th, 2005
Sick days
I’ve been having one of those ’so that’s how my parents felt’ moments lately, because Colin is sick for the first time. In a scenario that’s sure to be repeated numerous times down the road, he picked up some sort of bug (possibly from Jess - it’s all Mommy’s fault!) that has caused a couple of weeks of coughing, congestion, runny noses…you get the idea.
I had no idea how much this would pain me, watching him deal with this, and mostly unable to do much about it. We had three days of comically trying to get him to take a whopping dose of antibiotics using an eye dropper - sticky red medicine spit everywhere, much crying, and ultimately (hopefully) some of the medicine getting in there.
It seems to be working, but your children’s sickness really does affect you more than you’d think. So to my own Mom and Dad, sorry for putting you through this hundreds of times - sorry for the broken limbs, the flu, chicken pox, the time I used my bare feet as brakes on my Big Wheels a la Fred Flintstone, and all the rest.