Hey guys! Tonight I was watching Discovery Health Channel (so I don't have a life [img]smileys/smilies_49.gif[/img]) and it had a show called "Paramedics' on. There was a woman who had a ten-year-old daughter who got hit by a car on a bicycle. She was severely agoraphobic and hadn't left her HOUSE in seven years! But yet, although she was having a panic attack in the ambulance, the paramedic reminded her of her responsibility as a mother to care for her child, and her duty to be strong in that situation. And guess what? She calmed down almost immediately, despite her phobia, and did what she had to do in order to care for her poor baby. Isn't that amazing? If that mom, who has been too scared to leave her own home for seven years, can find the courage to care for her daughter in the face of trauma (which has to be terrifying to any parent!), then why can't we?
Emet moms, you are so awesome! Guess what? We can all be like this brave mother, can't we? Don't let emetophobia stand in the way of your dreams! I won't! Boo, emetophobia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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