My daughter was very sick when she was a baby, but we did not know what was wrong until she was a few days old. Then almost every time a doctor came into my hospital room to talk, it was more bad news. Apparently my daughter's pediatrician told my husband that she was concerned because I was taking the news too well. Of course I was distressed that my daughter had these problems and that she would need open heart surgery before she was a year old and if we were lucky we might get her weight up to ten pounds before she had the surgery so it would be easier for her, but if I had just fallen apart, what good would that have been for my daughter?
I did have a meltdown when I took her to the emergency room at the children's hospital just before she had to have the open heart surgery when she was three weeks old and the emergency room doctor who wanted to examine her coughed into his hands and then he wanted me to hand her to him, but he didn't wash his hands. The problem with that was that my daughter had congestive heart failure and I had been told that a cold could kill her, so I told him to go wash his hands.
