Dr. Mom

This week I have talked a lot about being Dr. Mom to your family. For me this has recently entailed choosing the right health care provider, cleaning up puke, and having to use eye patches and glasses for my son’s newly discovered vision problems. It’s been very tiring.

Taking care of the health and well being of your children is no easy task. Having a sick kid often involves, late nights, horrible smells, and putting your already backed up schedule on hold. Let’s be honest though, that’s not even the hard part. The hard part is seeing the little one that you love so much having to suffer. It’s watching the one that normally wears you out with energy levels that are through the roof suddenly become feverish and lethargic as they curl up in your arms. No one looks forward to caring for an ailing child.

That’s what we do though; we are there for our kids through thick and thin. Even when we can’t make it all better, or we don’t know how they feel. Sometimes in those moments all you can do is love and nurture. That is difference between a superficial love that is shallow and fleeting and a true bond that runs deep like the love between mother and child. It’s loving and caring even when it breaks your heart.

It breaks my heart to wrestle with my son everyday in order to bandage up his good eye and tape it shut leaving it in complete darkness, but I will continue to do it as long as have to in order for him to be completely whole.

Just like it breaks a mother’s heart to hold her child while they get a shot, or rub alcohol over an infected wound. It’s not the highlight of our job, but we do it because we want what is best for them. It’s hard work being “Dr. Mom” and unlike a real doctor you’ll never see a dime for the time you put in, but one thing is for sure, it does offer some great benefits.