Tackling Medical Mom Life—One Sip of Coffee at a Time.
Nobody warns you that medical motherhood is like entering a parallel universe where everything you thought you knew about parenting becomes completely useless. I learned this the hard way during hour 72 of a PICU stay, surviving on vending machine coffee and the kind of energy that makes your hands shake. I was sitting in […]
I’d officially lost control of my life when I found myself standing in the pharmacy at 9:47 PM on a Sunday, fluorescent lights buzzing overhead, begging them to fill a prescription that ran out three days ago. The pharmacist looked at me with that mix of pity and judgment while I’m standing there in my […]
I realized I’d officially entered the medical mom universe when I caught myself casually mentioning to my Starbucks barista that we couldn’t come in earlier because morning G-tube feedings take exactly 45 minutes and if we rush it, the whole day gets thrown off. At 7 AM. On a Tuesday. The espresso machine is hissing, […]
