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You Know You're the Parent of a Kid with Cancer When…
(Contributed by parents of kids with cancer and printed with
permission of www.squirreltales.com.)
1. Kids with hair look kind of strange to you
2. You can
sleep anywhere, and anything that reclines more than 15 degrees looks "comfy"
3. Your spouse asks what that sexy perfume is and it's Betadine®
4. You don't realize the sharps container is on the kitchen table until
half way through dinner
5. You enjoy the drive at 3 a.m. to the
emergency room because there aren't any other cars on the freeway
6. You
hear a truck backing up and you think the IV is beeping
7. The nurses
stop responding to the IV alarm, knowing you'll fix it anyway
8. You
can eat with one hand while you hold the barf bucket with the other
9.
Your child's bedroom looks like a Toys R Us® store
10. Your
daughter says she could clean her room a lot faster if she didn't have cancer
because she wouldn't have so many toys
11. None of the security guards
on the pediatric floor ask for your ID anymore
12. Medical students ask
to borrow your notes
13. You wrap presents and packages with medical
tape
14. Your child is going on a field trip and wants to know if you
have signed his "remission" slip
15. Waiting for an hour doesn't seem
like a long time anymore, compared to the wait at the doctors' appointments
16. You make Jell-O with Pedialite®
17. You are thankful
for steroids because finally there will not be turkey leftovers after the
Thanksgiving meal
18. All the kids in the neighborhood are having water
fights with your child's syringes
19. Your two-and-a-half-year-old asks
you to order a "heparin and sausage pizza" instead of a pepperoni and sausage
pizza
20. Every little thing can make you cry in a heartbeat, but this
list has you rolling on the floor.
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