Navigating Parenting with Chronic Illness and Lost Slippers
One of the scariest parts of parenthood is failure. Failing your children isn't on any parent's agenda, it's the very thing we strive to avoid. We're trying to not fail them today in the little things and in the long term with the big things that truly matter in the end. The thing about failure, is that you don't know if it's in the cards until it shows up and slaps you in the face. Trying to navigate parenthood and avoid failure in today's world is challenging in itself. Trying to navigate parenthood when you're dealing with a chronic illness and avoiding failure is a whole new level of challenging it feels. The years of uncertainty before a diagnosis, when you know something is wrong, but you have no diagnosis, so you're just left to your own worst thoughts are some of the most exhausting. Because all you can think about is how you're failing everyone around you. You know you should be and could be doing better but you don't know why you...
