When It's Hard To Be A Mom

Okay well let’s be honest there is not a single day that goes by that being a mom is not hard. Being a mom means that you worry about things that never even existed in your world until your children came along. Being responsible for another life is pretty much the hardest thing in this world. But in my honest and humble opinion being a mom is the hardest when your child is sick....it is even harder when said sickness may or may not be a fake sickness. Let me explain.....Thursday of last week I get a call from the school nurse at Brooke's school and she says to me that Brooke is in her office and she is complaining that her stomach hurts....she has been in my office EVERY day this week complaining of a stomach ache she says, but today she is running a fever. Well first of all why did it take four days for anyone to tell me that my child did not feel good...okay, okay that is a whole other blog...so anyway I go and pick her up from school and give her some Tylenol and let her rest...I told my husband that if she did not feel better by the morning I would take her to see the doctor. Well Friday we woke up and she was still complaining so I called the doctor and got her in. Let me back up just a bit and explain that she has NO other symptoms at all....the fever has not even come back....and her stomach ache surely has not slowed down her eating. The doctor listens to her stomach and says that "It is moving pretty fast"...whatever in the world that means...he said it is probably either a stomach virus or maybe e-coli or salmonella so to error on the safe side he put her on an antibiotic. Well that was Friday and today is Monday and when I woke her up for school this morning she started crying saying her stomach hurt. Now she did complain on and off all weekend, but she played and ate and ran around everywhere to....so here I sit a mother in confusion and worry with my hands all but tied behind my back. I didn't want to send her to school if she really didn't feel good, but I can't help but wonder if she is just trying to get out of school. Or maybe there is something more serious wrong with her stomach other than "it is moving pretty fast." In either case...it is hard to be a mom when your child is sick....it is even harder when your child is sick and you have to play detective.