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Friday, March 15, 2013
Questions
Questions
Lately I’ve had a lot of questions come up-can’t remember
them all, but I thought I’d share and hope that anyone who takes a peek here,
gives their own 2 cents of how they’d answer them:
1)
My baby has either colic or GERD, possibly
both-what should I do?
I was asked to chime in on this post by a
cousin by our daughter-in-law Sam on FaceBook.
Adam was severely colicky for his first 6 months. Besides, after running a day care for 10
years-I know gas and colic.
My answer was: raise the top of the crib,
get a hot water bottle, use whatever the latest and greatest bottle is that
doesn’t allow air into the chamber. Put
the baby into its car seat and place them on the dryer and turn it on. Go for a car ride. Get a swing.
If nursing-review what may cause gas and STOP eating it. If on formula-it’s not the right one. I also said that no matter what, Adam
screamed so loud and long that he herniated his navel. We put him on Phenergan and then-we got ear
plugs and kept on rocking him until he stopped.
He sat up the same week.
2)
What’s more important-making your parents happy
or yourself?
This won’t be popular with many. Everyone has their own reasons for whatever
answer you would say, but I think you need to be happy. Let’s face it, if mom/dad say you have to
become a doctor and you have an aversion for sick people-they may be happy but
you’ll not do what’s best for those people looking for relief from what ails
them and you’ll be miserable-making you a rotten doctor who no one wants. Same goes for any other topic that any parent
thinks they have a right to tell you how you should respond. That goes for what exercise you enjoy, books
to read, movies to watch, etc…
3)
When you’re writing, what do you feel is the
most important thing to get across-the facts or the feel of what it is you’re
trying to write about?
This may seem like the same thing-it’s
not. For me, the facts have to be
correct. No one wants to read an article
that may sound great, but has so many inaccuracies that it’s hard to know
whether or not you should trust what you’re reading. I always want to put my interviewee in the
best light, but you shouldn’t put made up items in there either.
4)
If you couldn’t write, what would you want to do
instead?
There’s a scary thought. For those who aren’t writers-exchange it for
what you do love to do for your career.
I did put my writing aside for 25 years.
Then I didn’t mind one bit, because I had done so voluntarily to raise
our kids. Now though, while I’m
certainly not ever going to even be able to keep my own head level with the
water line-I need my writing to be me.
It’s part of who and what I am.
I’ll end here because honestly-that question threw me for a complete
loop-de-loop and I still don’t know what I’d replace this part of my life with.
Have any of you had a poser put to you this week? If so, share it and maybe an answer will come
through the post that will help!