Perspective...

Colin never gets sick so when he woke up Sunday morning holding his throat and crying I knew right away it was probably strep. I took his temp and it was a little high. I gave him Motrin and he became a new kid. Motrin..what did we do before it?? The rest of the day he was fine but when the night came his fever was up to 101 and he felt crummy. I held him but before he fell asleep he looked up at me and said, "Mommy, make it go away". Ouch. That's the worse kind-of pain as a mother is when you can't make it go away. All I knew is in the morning I could take him to the doctor and get him medicine and he would be alright. Sure enough that is what happened. I took him and he did have strep. We came home with the yucky pink medicine and he is going to be alright. I was stressed those two days because my "baby" was sick. Then today everything was put in perspective for me. What if you can't make your "baby" well? Emma has a friend, Alaina, that when she was six found out she had neuroblastoma. She went through all the chemo, radiation and hell it takes to rid your body of cancer and now she is in remission--she is nine now and is still cancer-free. Through her mom I found a couple blogs. They are under my blog list. I just checked the one "what's cook'n.." and they received bad news about their little girl Bree. It hit me that at the exact time I was stressing over Colin's strep they were receiving the news that their one year old still had cancer in her bone marrow. What absolute pain that mother must be going through that she can't "make it go away". I need to remember that even when my situation seems so bad there is always worse. But even if that worse comes to us God will never leave us...even in this mother's darkest hours she is still praising God. In the end that is all we have. That is what I always need to keep in perspective.