Rhonda, it isn’t always easy even with a child without CAH. But know that every year it does get easier. I can remember leaving my daughter with CAH,  in preschool for the first time. She was ready and happy. I closed the door to the room and sobbed. I sobbed all the way to our local church. I stopped there on the way home to put my daughter in God’s hands. I needed that faith to get through it. I have done a lot of praying. I prayed before she entered preschool and do you know what happened? One of her preschool teachers was a retired registerd nurse! Imagine my peace hearing that. I don’t know who your God is, but I recommend praying to him. It was my ONLY grace to get through CAH and all it has brought. Also, I am sure every year to have made all the right arrangements with school. CLEAR arrangements. This includes meeting with the staff and teachers that will have my daughter in her class. And if it gives yo more peace, check up on them periodically. I then go home and stock my medicine cabinet with tylenol, and motrin, and any cold meds., even Kleenux. This gives me a sense of peace that I am ready for any colds or flus that come along. Sorta like getting your ammunition ready for a fight. Then I leave the rest up to God. You can’t control life. But you can sure do the best you can do to make sure all is in order to make sure you are ready for what life has to throw at you. I won’t lie, there are days when she is sick and I cry and say to myself, "I should just pull her out of school and keep her home with me to keep her healthy!" And do you know the next week when I see her blonde hair running towards me after school with a great big grin on her face telling me about what a great day she had and how she made a new friend on the playground, it makes those bad days melt away and I say, THIS is where she is meant to be. It isn’t easy when you have control of their meds. as a toddler, and nurturing them your own way. She was MINE and no one elses before school came along. I kept her safe and healthy, to give her up to this great big world REALLY sinks. But that is life and you want them to go forth and do what God intended them to do, live. I just emailed a friend of mine this poem about sending her one and only daughter to college yesterday. The poem recognized all the pain and sadness she was feeling but in the end of the poem it said this:"It’s hard, but it is as it should be. Thank God for the blessings of this passage to independence. It is after all, what I have invested my heart and soul into for the last 18 years. It’s hard, so very hard, but it is as it should be."

  Someone once said it is much easier to give them roots than wings to fly. Boy isn’t it? God bless you and may you find the peace in letting go and standing proud. This too shall pass.