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You Hurt When They Hurt


When you are in a family & one person is laughing then more people start to laugh.
Well, the same goes with hurting - when one is hurting we all hurt. Well, when you are the mom & one of your little ones is hurting then you HURT, HURT.
My sweet boy has had random stomach pains for about 2 years.  There is no pattern (we have tried to find one), there is no sign of them coming (we have tried to find one), there has not been an answer, but this momma ain't stopping until she finds one.
He & I were at the specialist the other day for 2+ hours & have started all over again to find some answers.
We found some answers.  They were answers that did not involve surgery & scary words.  We will fix him slowly.
I thought about other mommas in some of these scary moments & how awful it must be to have a really sick child.  My child was not on death's bed, but there were mommas around me whose babies were.
The fears were real for me & I was scared, but I knew quickly that my child would get better some of the others did not have that easy answer.
What if . . . ???  I would have loved on him even harder & so I did in that small hospital room with the other mommas crying next door - I loved on him harder.  I may have kept him home from school a little extra because those mommas couldn't have their babies at home.
He is amazing & he is mine for a time & he is getting healthier quick.

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