Sickness

We are in a season of sickness around here.  As absolutely frustrating as it is to have my babies sick, I have so much to be thankful for.  Don't get me wrong....I am SO NOT THANKFUL for the stomach bug, strep, fevers, ear infections....but I am so, so thankful for God placing me in a place where I can make one phone call, pull out one little plastic card and be in to see a doctor in a few short hours.  Whenever my girls are sick...you know the kind of sick where they are absolutely miserable with pain and burning with fever????  I always think "what if I lived in some mud hut in the middle of nowhere with no doctor around for hundreds of miles"?  I imagine that someone who actually lives in a mud hut in the middle of nowhere has a sick child at the same time.  Then I go to the doctor and they are left, alone, to do the best that they can.  As a mother, I-just-cannot-imagine!!!!  I try to tell M1 when she's sick that we are so lucky to have doctors and medicine and that her baby sister won't have this at the beginning.  It makes her really, really want to bring her sister home!  I hope one day Doug and I can go on a medical mission trip...actually, we hope to spend our retirement years in the mission field.  I hope I can just help ONE of those momma's who needs help for their sick baby!