I can only imagine how much more intense that is as a parent.

Well, if you are anything like my wife with our dog... it is similar :) Hope yours is doing better.

But I guess that forces you parents to develop a resiliency and perspective on child illnesses that those of us who haven't parented may not have developed.

It does I think - being a parent has changed me in various ways, relaxed me a bit more.

I can imagine being in a position of not having kids but being around sick kids is really difficult. It can seem perhaps like the parents are being complacent. For us, Smallsteps had issues at birth and as new parents, this was a nightmare situation - and for us, it was incredibly hard. Hypothetically if we had a second and the same thing happened, we would be much better prepped for it.

This is why younger children are so much smarter, better and well-developed emotionally than their older siblings - parents leave them alone more ;D