I am happy that I can love my wife and my children dearly. However, the flipside of this is whenever any of them show any signs of getting sick I get extremely worried. I simply do not want anything bad to happen to them, and am worried to go to a doctor too late. My gut instinct is to go to the emergency room for every small issue, but I consciousely understand that this is not a logical response.
Do any of you have suggestions on how I can figure out what an appropriate response to different types of sickness symptoms would be?
Have you tried talking to your own parents/older family members? They’ve seen most of the common problems and can give you reasonable answers.
My own parents didn’t take my son to the emergency room when he had an asthma attack and was literally turning blue because they’d been taught asthma isn’t ‘that bad’ and people who have it are hypochondriacs.
That’s why I put my suggestion in the form of a question. Not every adult is a grown up.
The situation reminds me of an old gag. The first kid’s first nose bleed means a trip to the ER. The third kid’s second nose bleed is met with “Get off the good rug!”