The Worst Part of the Job
The worst part of the job isn’t the lack of sleep, it’s not the poopie diapers, runny noses or even the screaming in decibels beyond the threshold of audible pain. No, the worst part of the job is their pain. Physical or emotional, pain is the pits, often necessary, but never fun! Nightmares and medical procedures, they top the list on this mommy’s concerns, as we’ve had both this month.
Night before last night was one of those nights. Vienna woke up screaming once again, we’ve had this several times this month. The worst thing is that she can’t seem to tell me what happened and what’s going on, so it often takes quite some time to figure out if it is physical pain or emotional pain from a nightmare. Especially since she’s had those infections that give her pain, I worry that I’m getting it wrong. Does your head hurt, did you have a bad dream, does it hurt here, are you happy, are you scared, do you know whats wrong? That night Vienna answered yes to every question. If we tried to put her back into her bed she would scream as if you were lowering her into a vat of scaling oil! NOT fun! Especially at one in the morning when you’ve had lack of sleep all week.
Then there’s the medical stuff, it’s awful when you have to try to explain to a two year old that it won’t last. It’s hard even just figuring out what is wrong half the time when they can’t clearly communicate what hurts, how it hurts, when it started or what have you… oh man! I am sooooo not looking forward to her procedure on October 3rd. it’s coming up sooo soon. I’m wondering if the doctors can prescribe me some vailum that day?
Last night was another nightmare night, though it didn’t seem as bad, but we were up twice with each child last night. And since we stayed up later just talking between ourselves (dealing with my attitude, oh so fun) we’re a touch on the exhausted side 
Yeah… all part in parcel to the wife/mommy gig…
It’s still the best job in the world for me.
Hey! I saw your comment on my blog. Try not to worry too much. My girl had the DeFlux 3 times. The first time was very hard and by the 3rd we were pros. If your girl is anything like mine, she will recover so much better than you do. Hang in there, and if you want to chat about it, let me know. I understand what it is like to have your baby off for a surgery like that.
The other night Dacia Grace woke me at 1:00 AM……”Mommy my tummy HURTS!” I was awake instantly….now that she can tell me what is wrong, it is a little better. But the other night it was all I could do to keep myself together as she sobbed, “Mommy I don’t want this owie anymore. Take it away!” Oh how I wanted to do that for her. Thankfully after close to 90 minutes of this she fell asleep…..I think from pure exhaustion because the following morning…..”My tummy HURTS!” was the complaint again for about 45 minutes or so…….