My younger son has been sick all week. Croup. The
middle-of-the-night sound of him hoarsely fighting for breath wakes one
instantly to a state of full alert. We've been down this road seven
times now (Down syndrome awarded him tiny respiratory passages that are
overly susceptible to infection), so it, like everything else, was
weathered with only a modicum of whining.
On my part, the
whining. But my point: he brought this home from school (no one else in
the house is sick), and therein lies my quandary. When do you keep a
sick kid home and when do you send him off to school?
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