Ahhhhhh CHOO!!

Gesundheit. Healthiness, in German. Auf Deutsche.

I am longing for a house of wellness. But I would settle for a reduction in goo.

Over the past few weeks (ok, 2 months) we have been passing around colds, coughs, pink eye, snot snot and more snot. I am sick of being sick. And we are fortunate that for now, we are only dealing with colds. Other families are quarantined with H1N1. While mostly mild, H1N1 affects some people quite harshly (and scares the bejeebus out of parents), and seems to be a bit of a mystery to the medical community regarding who it will hit hard, and why. And so, because of that lack of predictability, we bit the bullet and got Soph "The Shot". GASP!

No dramatic 6 hr lines ups, no spiking fevers afterwards. In fact, it was fairly uneventful. Yet, it was one of the hardest decisions I have ever had to make, and I still question (and will for some time) whether it was the best decision. But as a parent, often you have to make a call with no clear winner tipping the decision scale. There were very small risks with getting the shot. And risks with not getting it. I am not someone to blindly follow the advice of the medical community, but in the end, I had to allow the advice of my doctor tip the scale.

I may as well get used to a lifetime of questioning all my decisions.

At the end of the day, it often comes down to gut. And sometimes, we will get it wrong.

-jl