I'm talking about my children - whenever they seem sick, I get myself convinced, "Yeah they're definitely sick with something major, I'd better take them to the doctor & get some medicine that will make them all better." So I take them in, pay the $25 copay... only to have to doctor tell me that there's nothing really wrong & should just keep watching how they do.
Seriously? That's the best you can do for me & my miserable horrid child who won't sleep/won't eat/cries all the time/whatever the problem may be?
And this happens EVERY TIME. Ever since Emma was little, and now with Adam, the times that I've finally given in & said "This time they're definitely ill, I'm going to the doctor", this is the result. It is annoying, to say the least. Aside from the wasted money - it's like life just keeps telling me "Give it up, you have no motherly intuition or instincts so just stop trying! Your children are just difficult & it's no illness, there is no medicine that will magically fix it, you'll just have to live with it!"
So, after having spent the last 5 nights up all night long with Adam, not to mention muddling through terrible naps, I had the thought this afternoon "Maybe he has an ear infection." After all, he's had an icky cold for a week now, it's a decent chance that an ear infection could've developed. Then Grandma suggested the very same thing; so to the doctor we went. She started looking him over, and I could already hear the words in my head: "No, his ears look good, everything seems okay." Oh yeah, smartypants?! Clearly he's not okay, he becomes a demon a night, something is wrong, how can you stand there & tell m---- Huh? What's that you say?
He DOES have an ear infection?
TWO ear infections?!?!
HAL! LE! LUJAH!!!!! Real sickness, treatable with highly effective modern medicine! I'm like a completely new person now, it's the best day ever.
Sweet, delicious validation.
(should I be a little less happy about my son having double ear infections that are no doubt quite painful for him? I suppose... nope, I'm just plain thrilled.)
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