In real life…
Kids get hurt, kids get sick … and parents just keeping putting one foot in front of the other every morning.
A day in the life…
Each morning I wake up and push the button on my coffee machine and must finish the cup before I can tackle anything. Which is what happened yesterday. I come downstairs and have my cup – sometimes I drink it while I’m feeding Katie and catching up on last nights news and the weather. But this was going to be a different day. Matthew came home from school with a sore foot yesterday & refused to walk on it. Well, I thought we’d give it the night to heal. But the first step he took was again, agony.
Dave (the good father he is) took both kids to see the doctor. (Because you know, in real life, it isn’t as easy as having one healthy kid – they ‘both’ have to have something wrong with them.)
So – after a visit from the doctor – he’s off to the hospital for x-rays. Well, what do you know? It isn’t an ‘ingrown toenail’ – as so expertly diagnosed by the daycare staff – but in fact – it is a fractured bone! Well, one big giant purple bandage later – Matthew is sporting a shiny new cast on his left foot.
Now – here’s the fun part – here are the questions… well? Can he walk on it? When can he go back to school? Will it heal properly or will he be limping for the rest of his life?
Because in real life… there are no safety nets! So folks, you’d better put on that seat belt / safety helmet / and tie those shoes tight because you just never know.
Keeping it real.