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A Day In The Life

I’m keeping it short and sweet today. Just got home from a day of work and although I love being able to get in there, see a few patients and do a little teaching, I’m bushed. Especially since Eva is still recovering from her latest viral whatever and I’m feeling a bit sleep deprived. So I’m just going to share a few quotes from my day at work.

Me: It would be simpler to ask me when my children haven’t been sick in the last 6 months. I can tell you: the first 2 weeks of January.

Trainee ER doctor: Yeah, that Gina Ford. She’s kind of insane.

Trainee Pediatric ER doctor: my childproofing is pretty lame. I mean, you can’t protect them from everything.

My colleague: I finally just said to them, “Look, all my children are fully immunized. In fact, I don’t know a single pediatrician who hasn’t immunized his or her children. That should tell you something.”

I think you can infer a lot from those lines, can’t you? My children are perfectly average, having their 10 viral illnesses a year. There is no approach to parenting that works for every baby or every parent. Childproofing isn’t a guarantee anyway; I locked up the really dangerous stuff, threw up a couple baby gates and used masking tape everywhere else while they learn, “No.” (And they’ve got it! They stick their little fingers 2 inches from a safety-plugged electrical outlet and look over at me, heads shaking back and forth. Stinkers.) And I don’t think I need to say anything about that last line, do I?

Dr. Lara Zibners, Feb 03, 2011

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