Taking care of kids when you're sick is a special kind of hell
by Laura Falin posted in Life
"Mom! Can you move the fridge" I lost a ball behind there!"
It's not actually that hard to move our fridge. It rolls pretty easily. It's just that I was sitting at the kitchen table with a low-grade fever and a miserable case of strep, and it would have been nice if someone asked me why I cried when I swallowed rather than demanding I move appliances.
This is how it is when you're a mom. Everyone expects you to continue life as usual, even when you feel like you're swallowing razors.
I asked my friends and every one of them has stories of being sick and having to rally because someone has to keep making sure the kids are safe and healthy and somewhat fed. I once let my 2-year-old sit in the middle of the living room floor, happily ripping all the pages out of his books, while I lay on the couch with a stomach bug. I figured he was safe. He was occupied. I could eventually replace the books. But I couldn't summon the energy to make him stop and find something else to do at that point.
Crysti did something similar when her babies were young.
"I get migraines and when Andrew was a pre-walker I would get them (and I struggled hard with some depression) but of course couldn't just stay in bed all day. There were a couple of days that I put him in his circle play bouncer thing with snacks and toys on it, a baby Einstein on the tv and I'd sleep on the floor next to him. My sweet mom reminded me that as long as he was safe and I...
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