So how is it that your children always get sick when your spouse is out of town on business??? I can not count the times that one of our children have visited the doctor, let alone the times they have ended up in the ER when daddy is away. And it is never something easy like say a broken arm, or some other no brainer. It is always the mystery illness...the random fever...the unwavering tears...You know the kind that stops right when you pull into the ER parking lot and you stop and question yourself,"is it really that bad, or is it just my imagination?" Or my new favorite(because I fell victim just hours ago when we took a trip to the ER because Beez was waking up every 15 screaminig about her right ear hurting...mind you we were at the doctor for another reason this afternoon and her ear was fine) But back to the story, I finally decide to cart her off to the ER to be checked after 3 hours of misery...unending tears, break your heart sobs...so I call my sister and tell her husband that I need to bring the boys to their house so I can take Beez to the ER(remember Big Daddy is in FL...working) wake up the boys, which was funny to begin with because Snake had been coughing so I gave him nighttime cough medicine...so he was looney, and off to KC's we go. Beez cries all the way there (5 minutes) and then stops when we arrive. Boys get out, I update KC and we are off.
Fifteen minutes later I am a few blocks from the ER when Beez starts laughing to herself in the backseat about the Backyardigans. So I did what any mother would do...I pulled over and demanded that she decide if she was hurting enough to go to the hospital or should we just go home...okay, so since she is only 3yrs old, I basically argued with myself, and in the end decided that it wouldn't be the first or last time I played the part of the overproctective parent and went on.
Turns out, she has a really bad ear infection, we were in and out in less than an hour. Now I am sitting here wondering if when I was argueing with myself...was it really doubt or intuition all along?