My childless brother has me doubting myself, please say if IABU.
DD aged 7 has an appointment later, physio.
It’s walking distance from school as its at our GP surgery but run by a community physio (if that makes sense).
Surgery is not airconed but is right next to the canal and river. And in the shade for the most part.
Had a text from both the GP surgery and the community physio team to say appointments are going ahead as usual but more time will be given to each patient due to the heat.
I was planning on still taking DD, she needs this appointment. I don’t have a car as it’s in for MOT so can’t take one – I’ve always walked places if I can though, and taxi will be over £10 which doesn’t seem worth it for such a short walk.
I’m picking her up from school at 2.15, appointment is at 3.30 so we have roughly an hour to walk 0.5m to the surgery. I plan to take a big bottle of water, plus school will fill DDs water bottle before she leaves school (I’ve already asked them to do this and they were fine with it) and part of the route is under trees so we’ll walk under those. DD will also have a hat on (she’s generally pretty good at wearing it).
School have let kids wear their PE kit for today as well so DD is nice and cool in pale blue tshirt and baggy shorts.
My brothers had ago at, told me I’m disgusting, there’s a health warning for the weather, I should cancel or risk DD being very ill.
Everytime I tried to defend my decision he shouted me down, told me I was disguating and didn’t I know children can’t sweat like adults.
DD isn’t that bothered by the heat as long as she has a cold drink and a hat. I plan to go straight to the appointment then straight home.
But I still feel guilty that I’m not cancelling and like I’m putting DD at risk. Brothers still texting me asking me to reconsider the appointment, doesn't seem to understand cancelling one appointment affects the rest of DDs treatment.
I’m a single parent and ExH is only involved for 48 hours a month (2 overnights) so I question every decision.
So WWYD? Cancel or go ahead? Worried if I cancel we’ll get taken off the list as DDs treatment has already started. (She has a muscle condition, walking helps but she has physio in the summer to strengthen her muscles for winter when they're weaker and can be damaged when it's slippy due to wet/ice)