A Lesson Learned

It's been an exhausting day! I have a lot more respect for single parents out there...

Today my wife wife went in to get her wisdom teeth removed. This was no regular operation because of how long she waited before getting them removed. If the price tag has any reflection on the seriousness of the procedure, it came to a whopping $1700.00 plus medication. This was way overdue and I only regret not being able to get her in to get this procedure done earlier.

So off we went to take Allison to the doctor. The whole operation went much quicker then i thought and we were out the door in about 2 hours. When we got home, I followed the doctors instructions and loaded Allison up with pain killers and put her to bed. So that meant my daughter, Adia, was stuck with her dad , me, for the day. ("Yay" for me! "What's going on?" for her!)

For the last few weeks I have been poking fun at my wife Allison about what it is that she does during the day. I've been jokingly saying that she spends the day going for walks, drinking coffee with her family and watching the O.C. (It's all rainbows and skittles) Well... I found out today that it's really not like that at all. Chasing after Adia all day, finding a way to make it out the door to fire off faxes at Staples, and making sure that Allison gets her ice packs changed and pain killers when she's supposed to, has my head spinning. It's amazing how little I feel like I've accomplished today, but how exhausted I feel from it.

Needless to say, my poking fun at my wife about watching "The O.C" all day will stop. Being a caregiver requires a lot of detailed attention and can be quite exhausting. I'm feeling good about how the day went and is ending, and I'm looking forward to spending another full day with my daughter while my wife gets some well deserved rest. (Even if that means I won't be able to check out the Calgary Open Source Festival... *sigh*)