Re: Sick mums... was SAHMs, career women etc. (LONG)

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> >> Karina - home sick today, and no babies at home, >>so lots of

>time to write messages for a change!!

>

>>Ah now there's a problem with being a SAHM. When >you're sick you

>>still have the kids around unless you have very good family/friends

>>around who will take them off your hands.

>

>

>Yes, I have thought of this... it must be very tough to be ill and

>still have to cope with the kids all day.

Yup! :-)

>Apropos being ill I just got the notes from DS's hospital visit in

>February, where I stayed in with him for 5 days. We were both

>suffering the most horrendous viral infection, but of course he was

>the patient, not me. I was quite shocked by some of the comments

>made in the notes (in writing) by one of the younger nurses - she

>describes me as difficult, moody, and irrational - yet I was

>terribly ill, had lost nearly all my hearing, had continuos thumping

>headaches, was nearly delirious, and " sleeping " on a bunk bed next

>to his cot in 28 degrees Celsius with monitors going off every 10

>minutes and trying to breastfeed him every 2 hours to keep up my

>milk supply and keep his tummy used to tummy food (he was on a

>drip), and generally struggling to look after this little baby who

>although cared for 'medically' by the doctors, still had to be

>entertained, fed, comforted, soothed, for 24 hours a day, plus

>trying to keep up some normality for his 2-year old sister by having

>her in to !

>visit plus going home for a few hours to put her to bed every night.

>When really I should have been in bed myself.

>

>But of course mums shouldn't be unwell... oh well...

Well hiss boo to her! You are a better Mummy than she was a nurse!

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jennifer@...

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