What Not to Do When You are Sick
In the latter half of this week I was a walking advertisement for things you might NOT want to do when you are sick, at least not if you want to get better quickly. Things like getting less sleep than you normally do and working really hard on a project instead of taking it easy and giving your body a break. The result is that after having a cold for five days or so, I am just barely on the upward swing of feeling better.
But after a flurry activity for a little over 48 hours, Tony and I finished the Ezekiel Project proposals in time for the LTC meeting on Saturday. I wasn’t at the meeting, but apparently everyone liked them. I guess the bodily sacrifice of making myself more sick was probably worth it. 
Madeline was sick this week too. I really was trying hard to not be one of those paranoid parents who brings their baby in to the see the doctor at the drop of a hat, but after getting advice from a more experienced mom and from a nurse at the clinic, I thought we should probably go ahead and make an appointment. Well, it turned out nothing more serious than a bad cold was ailing her…and the doctor’s comments made me feel kind of like I was one of those over-paranoid moms.
Several people whom I have told this story to have said something like, “At least you have peace of mind that nothing else was wrong.” The problem is, I wasn’t really that worried about her in the first place. Since I am the type of person who generally would have to be close to dying or at least severely uncomfortable before seeing a doctor (except when I was pregnant of course), I generally don’t get that worried about sickness in others either. With Madeline this time I was starting to wonder if I was being too much the unconcerned parent, and that she really had pneumonia or a serious ear infection or something and I was just ignoring it. I guess my sense of what is severe or not severe isn’t well tuned to childhood illness yet. Oh well, hopefully I will guess better next time!