. After going through an entire semester with kids who have been chronically sick, I have learned a few things... I have learned that it never gets easier. I have learned most of all, that there are times you wish that someone could explain WHY this is happening or times that you would give ANYTHING to have an explianation to give to people when they comment on the health or lack thereof of your children. And of course when we start talking to people, we immediately start trying to come up with a reason to justify this place we are in:
"If it will just warm up, they will get well"
"If they will just keep growing, they will get well"
"It's because his tonsils aren't out and when they do come out, they will be well"
Or worse... other people start trying to tell us why they are sick or how to make them better!
"It's because you didn't vaccinate"
"It's because you did vaccinate"
"You should go to an organic diet"
"You should try Essential Oils"
"Have you done a cleanse on your 8 year old"
"It's the chemicals you use to clean your house"
Or my favorite...
"If it were my kid, I'd tell y'all what I would do..."
Have kids who are chronically sick is SUPER FRUSTRATING and no one knows that better than I do. I appreciate the advice and try to over look the eye rolls or the bugged out eyes when word gets around that we are sick... AGAIN... No one would like an explaination more than I would, however; could the explaination be that they are kids and aren't done developing? Or possibly, that we live in a fallen world and sickness is around. Could it be that Satan is a liar and a cheat and a thief and he is out to destroy a family that is making a difference in our neck of the woods?
I would like an explaination and solution more than anyone but that incinuates that their health is solely based on what I do or don't do and that isn't always the case. I don't have it all figured out but one thing I can be confident of tonight, I am a good mom. I have done essential oils, dairy free, protein shakes, vaccinate, changing cleaning solutions, vitamin regiments, raw vegetables, daily water and everything else a mother can possibly think of. I have changed their toothbrushes, washed their sheets, threw out their towels. I have sanitized this house surface to surface.
Maybe it's not any of that. Maybe, just maybe, in spite of everything that I am doing to be the best mother of my children that I possibly can be, my kids currently have low immune systems. For whatever reason, they are catching everything that they come in contact with and right now, it doesn't matter what I do or don't do, this is something that is happening within their bodies and at some point, this season will be over. They will grow up. They will get stronger. There will come a time when they are well more than they are sick. Until that time comes, I will lay beside them, take the to the Dr, give them Motrin, keep a cold rag on their heads, stay on top of their meds, keep them on vitamins and pray every single day that the enemy release his hold on my kids health and claim the healing power of the blood of Jesus over their bodies.
