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When your child is in surgery
This is what you want to focus on
Last Friday my 5-year-old daughter had to undergo a procedure while fully anesthetized. Long story short: many and large cavities in het milk teeth. And she’s afraid of loud noises so we all thought it best if she wouldn’t notice a thing.
And yes, I know this is really nothing compared to other life or death surgeries that children have to undergo.
But for us this was big, this was real, and for me… scary.
Which I did not expect. I’m always ‘cool’, I take things as they are and then give them a positive twist. I trust that everything always happens for the highest good. And yet, being confronted with the situation from this close, I was almost knocked out by all the fear and unrest that surfaced in the few weeks before the procedure (on Friday the 13th too!). I want to share with you how I overcame all the bumps around the procedure.
First of all, there was the fact that my daughter had so many cavities at all. I felt terrible about it. The very idea that I hadn’t taken good care of her, and that I had no idea how it could have come to this. We brush her teeth twice a day, floss daily and we pay attention to the amount of sugar, lemonade and candy she gets. And still it was not enough to prevent all this (I will not go into that…
