trying to figure out how to work when your child is sick is so hard. One not-sympathetic social worker -social worker, mind you - at a uni told me that I could just drop her off with friends (you know, because your friends want your sick kid in their house with their not-sick kids). Unreal. And when she was really young and I wore her (teaching college kids) she said I could never do that again (the students loved it, she was super quiet - really, not a peep out of her as long as she was on my back
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Very hard