So embarrassed, my CEO asked how my daughter was & I almost cried.....

[proudmum74]

I'm going to have to change jobs, or at least avoid him for several months, he looked so uncomfortable....

I'm normally so composed! It's not even as if there is anything seriously wrong with her, she was only going for her annual blood tests.

I'd just got myself ridicuously stresed about the fact that they always struggle to find a vein & they end up having to restrain her for about 20 mins whilst they search her body trying to find one, all the time she's sobbing (and she never normally cries). The last few times they've taken it from the side of her foot and then struggled to stop the bleeding afterwards, as it sprays all over me & the nurses.

I'm now going to hide for the foreseeable future, whilst giving myself a good talking to!

lots of sympathy, my dd also has tricky veins from over use. A;so they use the side of the foot or inner wrist, I always feel guilty after irrationally as it has to be done. Hope it went ok.

Do you know, you might have shown him the strain you are under and it will show that you are human.
I cried my leg off the other week when a colleague said "oh yes it's stressfull at work at the mo, but at least things are going ok at home for you" They weren't,but I was trying to cope.
Hope DD is ok.x

He was probably uncomfortable because he didn't know the 'right' thing to say rather than he thought you were being hideously inappropriate. He asked after all.

"Oh no, I forgot to be the evil boss and engaged on a human level. Now I'll be morally obliged to agree if she needs flexible working..."

I wept all over the girl at the creche on Friday as I was 15 minutes after closing time to collect DD. It's been a rotten year, when we finally got our Asp/ADHD dx, DH has been travelling approx 40% of his time (where there is cr*p communications), I've had an au pair living in (both have been fine but its different having someone else there too), and work has been soo horrenduously busy for the past 4 years and getting worse. I wasn't supposed to collect DD (normally she goes home after school on Fridays, but the au pair had her exam, and weather was so bad that I agreed to collect her), but then work went manic mid-afternoon, and the ed psych rang me en route that I had to take (after 6pm phonecall, in preparation for an 8.30am mtg Mon morn), traffic was bad, roads still flooded in places, and I was just sooo late that - when the girl asked me if everything was alright, I dissolved into floods myself. If she'd been not so NICE and been grumpy about me being late on a Friday night, I'd have been fine - but the sympathy just sent me over!

It happens. They understand.

And sometimes, they do need to be reminided that we are human too and can only take so much strain at once.