There are few things more effective at demonstrating how powerless I truly am than one of my children being sick. Watching my child suffer from an illness makes me feel so completely helpless. Today, I feel even worse about it because I was giving Rowen a hard time about how "over dramatic" he was acting this afternoon. He has only recently just recovered from a fever, and I thought that he was milking some of the earlier sympathy he had received.
... then he threw up.
I felt like the mother in Calvin and Hobbes [comic attached *thank you Bill Watterson for being so amazingly awesome].
I've been reading books where people have been dying from the flu. I remember once thinking that I was glad our modern society does not have that problem. That is, until Alex had to be hospitalized as a child. Thankfully, everything turned out fine, but even now, a decade and a half later, that incident still sends shivers down my spine. I do not think I have ever been more afraid.
Here is hoping that Rowen makes a quick recovery.
... then he threw up.
I felt like the mother in Calvin and Hobbes [comic attached *thank you Bill Watterson for being so amazingly awesome].
I've been reading books where people have been dying from the flu. I remember once thinking that I was glad our modern society does not have that problem. That is, until Alex had to be hospitalized as a child. Thankfully, everything turned out fine, but even now, a decade and a half later, that incident still sends shivers down my spine. I do not think I have ever been more afraid.
Here is hoping that Rowen makes a quick recovery.
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