Illness

My daughter is currently battling a terribly stuffy nose, drainage, and coughing.  Her little pug nose is red from all the wiping.  My son has a stye on his left eye which has been there for more than 2 weeks, and now he has a painful and swollen lymph node under his left ear.  It is, no doubt, caused by the stye.

Anyway, this brief blog entry is just a way to vent about the feelings I have when my kids are sick.  There are many problems with the illness of my children.

First of all, it breaks my heart when they don't sleep well.  Tack on being tired to feeling miserable and you've got a lousy situation.  I want so bad to fix their pains and discomforts, but I cannot.  Sure, I take them to the doctor and get some medicine when necessary.  But the medicine doesn't fix everything, and it certainly doesn't fix it right away.  I just want to hold my sickly kids and rub their ills away!

Of course, here I am blabbing on and on about the common cold and a silly, little stye.  I should be thankful that's all that's wrong with them.  The certainly aren't taking trips to the hospital or battling Leukemia.  God bless those families who are in those fights.

But, while I'm sounding like a spoiled little boy, let me cap it off with one other pain in my "arse."  I hate having to miss work when my kids are sick!  I'm a teacher, and when I miss work I just get so behind... grading backs up, my initial plans get out of whack... blah, blah, blah!

I think I'll go hug my little ones.  They're not in the hospital, and they will be fine.  I just felt like whining.