Why, oh WHY, do kids always get sick when you have plans?

[davsand]

Other DU parents have YOU experienced this phenom or is it JUST me? I swear to gawd, my kid will get sick EVERY freaking time I try and plan for anything.

She is healthy most of the time, but let me plan to go someplace or do something and BOOM--the poor kid gets sick. 52 weeks in a year with the majority of them with nothing going on--no plans--and I will guarantee you that my child will catch something the one week I plan to be someplace.

Tonight it was a benefit dinner we were planning to go to. I am missing a dinner to benefit a friend who had no health insurance and is now in the ICU. Hubby went without me and they still get the cash for the fundraiser, so we are helping out even IF I am not there, but I would have liked very much to be there in support.

Don't get me wrong--I love my kid and I hate more than anything to see her sick. (That is the major part of my frustration, I think.) But somehow, in the back of my mind is this voice asking WHY, oh WHY do they always get sick when you have stuff planned?

Is it only my kid?


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