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2020-11-05
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NIGHT WATCH

Summary:

A mother's burden, watching over a sick child. Short ficlet.

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I stare for long minutes at your flushed face and watch for your next breath, worried you might have stopped breathing when I had finally succumbed to sleep, desperately tired from my motherly duty. But as I watch, to my relief, your chest rises.

Though you are no longer a child but not yet an adult and you are old enough to monitor your condition and take medications when required, you are my youngest, my baby, and I cannot help but continue taking care of you.

My body is full of aches and pains from a long life of devotion to work and family duties.  It is harder now for me to handle the late night rigors of waking at various hours to check on you.  Sleep is difficult enough for me to attain under normal circumstances but I willingly give it up to insure you are sleeping peacefully without pain and discomfort and will survive to see another day because that’s what mothers do for the ones they love.