I'm sorry she isn't feeling well. I know it has to be hard to watch her be sick and just doing the best you can, but not having a magic wand to fix her, nor psychic spyglass to even know what's wrong. Even just with my dog, who is injured right now, it is incredibly stressful trying to do best by someone depending on you who you love. I can only imagine how much more intense that is as a parent. But I guess that forces you parents to develop a resiliency and perspective on child illnesses that those of us who haven't parented may not have developed.

I can recall the first time I spent a considerable amount of time around any of my nieces/nephews and one got sick. My 3 year old nephew was so sick he wouldn't eat for days. I'm the one who finally insisted we take him to the ER. No one else wanted to take him, saying he would get better with the rest, fluids, and food alone. Well turns out the doctor said pretty much the same thing. I apologized profusely to everyone for making such a big deal about it. (I was so stressed by it all I just had to insist we go.) They were all gracious, saying they knew I wasn't used to sick children because I didn't have any, and that they knew I just cared about him, and it was okay.

Props to you parents. Gosh, what a hard job.