It will be another rough week for me. All that effort to call Dallas to check on all Maddy's appointments is just so much work for me, when all he has to do is pick her up (after only 4-5 hours of sleep), drive her downtown, and spend hours at appointments. Yep, it is so difficult for me.... I am joking about it being difficult for me of course, but I did want to take a few minutes to say how wonderful my husband is.
Although I would love to be there for every single appointment she has, it is just not possible. I try my best to take care of as many as I can, but the reality is that Dallas working second shift leaves a lot of the responsibility up to him. He works very long nights, often 10 - 12 hours and sometimes 6 days a week. He gets up after only 4-5 hours of sleep for some of her appointments without complaint. In fact, he called me this week after her first therapy appointment and his only complaint was that he worried the timing wouldn't work for her because it got in the way of her nap and she was exhausted.
I couldn't imagine making it through all this sane without the love and support of such a wonderful partner who cares about our daughter and her needs every bit as much as I do. I am sure I often forget to tell him how much I appreciate him (so I will just embarrass him by doing it publicly instead).
I can't tell you how many times people have told me what a great dad he is after watching the two of them together, or how often people tell me how lucky I am. I found myself a keeper, that is for sure.
End Sappy Rant.
On a side note: Maddy has another therapy eval this week (for feeding therapy), and 2 additional therapy sessions, I will likely just post an update this weekend of all 3 so as not to bore you with updates every other day.
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