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Sick Kids
Friday, Feb. 07, 2003, 8:54 a.m.

Question: Why do heavy workloads and bouts of sickness always coincide?

What Did I Learn: Always have Popsicles and Campbell�s creamy tomato soup at hand.

There are a lot of nice people that I work with every day. Many of them do not have children. You can tell because when you explain to them that you were up until 2 in the morning completing a massive project while nursing your sick kid(s), they:

look at you like you�re bragging or�
immediately suppress a yawn or�
widen their eyes a bit as if to say what a great scam or...
take a sip of their bottled water and discreetly admire their new manicure or...
think about how they had to take their cat to the vet last month for a shot.

You can hear the inner dialogue. Oh yeah, here�s the one about the sick kids. I wish I had some sick kids so I could turn up 5 minutes late/attend the meeting by phone/have an extension on my project/take an extra day off/leave early/make myself look like a saint.

I can�t say I blame them. Sick kids can botch up a working mom's schedule for a week or two � tag teaming each other with outbreaks of the flu and visits to the doctor. It is such a long process that it starts to sound old fast. I�m almost embarrassed to provide the sick kid explanation. The sick kid thing � again? Aren�t they better yet? - I imagine them thinking.

There are some other working parents in the office but they are either:

so glad their kids aren�t sick or...
on work overdrive and have made a decision that their kid just has to suck it up or...
have a wife/grandmother/nanny or other useful person to address the sick episode on their behalf or...
are reminded again how great it is to have the kids out at college

that they aren�t as sympathetic an audience as a tired working mother with two sick kids really needs to feel appreciated.

Did I tell you about how I was up until 2 in the morning working on that big project and I had both the kids sick at home?

Nevermind.

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