You know you're a CF parent when …
- You look at nutritional labels to find items with the most calories and fat instead of the opposite.
- You are a hand sanitizer connoisseur and can locate a bottle within 30 seconds from anywhere on the planet.
- Instead of hearing your child say, "The dog ate my homework!" you hear, "The dog ate my nebulizer!"
- You snitch salt packets and stash them in your purse, car and diaper bag.
- You find enzyme beads in the strangest places and wonder how on earth they got there.
- The older your child gets, the heavier you get!
- You get excited about the pill box section at the pharmacy in the same way that others like office supply stores.
- You don't need speed dial for the CF clinic phone number; you have it memorized.
- Your highly-trained ears can hear another person coughing from a mile away.
- People think you're nuts when you say, “Wow! That was a good cough!”
- You find yourself discussing private bodily functions over the family dinner table without any embarrassment at all.
- You know more medical terminology than some professionals.
- When you go out to dinner on a date night, you still get out the enzymes.
- You can flush a PICC line faster than a nurse.
- You make nebulizer soup in a large pot every night.
- You are a doctor, nurse, lawyer, pharmacist, accountant and child psychiatrist all in the same body!
- You can care for your special child better than anyone else in the universe.