I'm sure everyone has thought this sometime in their life, "I will not be like my parents when I get older!" Then we have children and find ourselves doing and saying what they did. ;0)
I'm glad I do. My mom always knew when we were sick and what we had. I never understood how she knew just about everything we were doing or feeling until I had my own.
2 days ago I noticed Kristiana started sounding a little strange. Then yesterday I woke her up and she was not acting like herself, she didn't want to eat breakfast and was just real slow. Then when I picked her up from preschool her teachers said she was not acting like herself. I noticed when she talked she didn't sound like herself either. So I looked down her throat and sure enough it was red, swollen and a little white. Her temp was normal though 98.2. 1 hour later in the Dr office she had 101.2 fever and was really not feeling good at all. Sure enough she had strep! I just knew it. I caught it so early that I didn't have to deal with the high fever and her being in so much pain because of what my mom taught me. My mom always said, if you cough up yucky stuff or sound funny (like you have an egg in your throat) you usually have strep. I'm so glad I had a mom to teach me everything she did. She may not realized she was getting me ready to be a good mom when I was 10 but she really was. I also knew as soon as my youngest son had the stomach flu and couldn't shake it after 5 days to put him on a B.R.A.T. diet because of her, and it worked!!! Bananas, Rice, Apple Sauce and Toast she would say. lol There are so many other things she taught me that I don't think she realized she was teaching me I could go on and on. I can only hope I pass this all on to my kids, especially daughter so she can be a good mommy too.
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