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Not Once Have You Lived For Yourself
I hope that your daughter gets better.
Yes, I’ve imagined her saying, ‘Really, Dad?’ when you blurted out her older sister’s birth date to the nurse instead of hers and I’ve replayed her asking you that several times.
She’s so young. I hope that she doesn’t need surgery.
I hope that she’s in good health.
You are burnt out. I think you have been burnt out for a long, long time.
It would be nice if you took a break.
I think it may be hard for your children to understand but I know that you work extremely hard and your hard work is for them.
I wish you could spend more time with your children so you’d know them better but I suspect that some, if not most of them, are still under your health insurance policy.
and I wish that they could keep in mind that at least you are as present in their lives as possible.
I think that at least it was considerate of you to have been at the hospital late on a weekday (when you had a morning appointment scheduled the next day) to be with your daughter and I hope she knows that at least you were there. At least you (and your wife probably) will pay for her to get better.
