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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been a parent for 8 years and have never been truly ill since I had kids. It is one of my biggest fears is being super sick and stuck in bed and having to take care of young kids. I probably haven't been super sick in over 15 years and that was when I was living abroad.

If you are truly sick what do you do?  Does your spouse handle everything? What if they have to work?  [/quote]

Yes, and I’ve also had to drive twice to the ER w/ my early ES kids in tow on a road trip. DH flew to our destination and wasn’t present for either event.  Frankly, my now teens have always been more understand (and more helpful) with what became an ongoing issue since that road-trip.

And I have been out hard with the flu. DH was on work travel, and I had to make do. We did very, very little screens with kids until middle school (especially no tablets, computers, etc.), so they got to watch movies which kept them very occupied. My kids didn’t get into much mischief anyway, so NBD.

Even when DH is home, it’s more like he’s on the road bc he’s working. I had a serious emergency in 2018 caused by an unknown allergy. I called him to come home when I regained consciousness. He came home but went right back to work. When I finally felt better and could think straight the next day, I went to patient first and the doctor lit into me for not going to the ER immediately especially after DH came home.

I have learned that teaching kids how to contact 9-1-1 from a very young age is important (though we never needed to do that), and that while having someone to back you up is nice, you need a plan that doesn’t involve other people for when you are sick. If you are too sick for much of anything, don’t drive your kids to pre-K / daycare unless someone else can take them.

When DH gets sick it’s a whole other story. [/quote]

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