Nurse Mommy

Maybe you always knew you wanted to be a nurse.  Maybe that desire to take care of others has been in you since you were little.  Maybe you are a teacher, a day care provider, an occupational therapist.  I, however, am not.  I never had something in me pulling me to care for other sick people.  I am an engineer - I like puzzles and logic and solving things.  I love numbers and other languages (programming languages, speaking languages, codes, etc.).  So when I became a mommy and realized it was up to me to take care of this baby, even when she was sick, I was out of my element.  I decided to approach it like solving a puzzle.  As a baby, Kara couldn't tell me what hurt, so the puzzle was even harder to solve.  But now, we have encountered many illnesses and I actually know what to do.  I know when to expect Kara will get a diaper rash, I know when to expect an ear infection, I know what a fever means and how to treat them all - what works for her anyway.  I honestly never thought I'd be good at this, but I finally am!  So when Kara's cold symptoms have been dragging on for days, and Kara woke up with a wet pull up, I was not surprised when she couldn't move and said she couldn't go to school because she had a diaper rash.  She couldn't sit - not on the bus, not on those hard little plastic chairs, not on the little rug they all sit on.  I called her out sick and went straight for the desitin and turned into nurse mommy.  She is now good to go and I love yet another aspect of motherhood.  :-)