Getting sick gets better with experience
By Jane HanFor the past two days, I so deeply and desperately wished I could just call in sick to motherhood, crawl into bed and shut the world out.There is one universal truth of parenting ― moms can’t get sick. And I’ve sadly gone against it.Somewhere between hauling my three kids back and forth from school and play dates to keeping this busy house under control, I caught a nasty hell-cold and sinus infection.It’s been roughly two years since I got any kind of a cold. Two years.I guess my body fought pretty hard and well over the past 730 days.I don’t know how many times my children had the stomach flu, cold, hand-foot-and-mouth disease and all kinds of other funky viruses over the same period. Not once did I come down with anything they had.At one point, I thought my body was some kind of ironclad or something. I guess it was just my mommy power.But this time, I have been totally knocked down.Just like how symptoms get worse for kids overnight, same goes for adults. My nose would get stuffier and my headache would start up every time the sun goes down. And
Dec 11, 2016
