Parenting Through Chronic Physical Pain

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 SPORK! 0 Comments

Studies say that when parents are in pain, children suffer. I push my body as hard as I can.



I closed the door on my wailing toddler and left her standing in her crib, reaching out for me. Her cries intensified, like the siren of an ambulance getting closer and louder until its howl drowns out everything else. I walked away and broke down crying. My daughter was sick, and I desperately wanted to soothe her. But I just couldn’t stand and rock her for one more minute to help her get to sleep. My broken body had reached its limit.



I’ve had back pain for much of my life caused by scoliosis, a curvature of the spine. And that afternoon, I felt my back would break if I cradled my daughter’s squirming 25-pound body any longer. I had to give up. My miserable best was to leave the room.


 Read the full article at the Atlantic 

(http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/parenting-through-chronic-physical-pain/282543/)

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