Chris tries not to feel like the second parent.

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And not to mention, sort of, my relationship with our daughter some of, you know, what I’m able to do in terms of spending time with her, in terms of looking after her has been so greatly impacted. She’s three. When I first started having these symptoms, she was one. There have been stretches, you know, when I’ve had good weeks where fortunately, again with the help of the occupational therapist previously and more recently the physio, where I’ve been able to, you know, by managing my expenditure of energy and stuff I’ve managed to improve or increase what I’ve been able to do with my daughter. Either bath time or bedtime or taking her to the park or what have you, but it’s still not what I was doing before or what I’d like to … And one mindset I’m trying to get out of – and is still challenging sometimes – is the notion of having become a bit of a secondary parent, because there are still activities that I can’t do with ease. So it’s my partner who’s getting her at daycare. It’s my partner who’s doing a lot of the morning routine with her and then I come in for a few things that are easier for me to do. But just try to increase gradually those things that I can do and not getting stuck in that lens of who’s the primary parent?

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