The stomach flu went through my daughters back to back and then proceeded to kick my ass today. I slept most of the day and now I’m still not feeling the best. I wrote to a friend saying,
“ It’s my turn to be sick. You know what sucks about being sick. Being sick and not having anyone to take care of you. Lying on the bathroom floor and thinking, “I could die right here and no one would miss me until tomorrow”. It sucks.”
On occasion I have no problems feeling sorry for myself. Especially when I have spent the entire day either in the bathroom or in bed. So here I am a little nauseous, a lot lonely (woe is me don’t you think) and I decided to do a “best of” post. I’ve never done one but I love when others do theirs. I love to find new blogs and to see what other people are writing.
The Post that Made Me Laugh The Most This Week: This honor goes to Allison over at That’s What She Blogged. She had started the day posting a picture of the most delectable layer cake which inspired me to post my picture of my partially eaten cheesecake. Later in the day she posted this picture which makes me laugh every time I see it.
The Blog that I happened to Find and I’m Glad That I Did: This goes to Dan over at Poetic Justice.
The Post that Mirrors Life: This one over at The Wild Pomegranate was a post had me nodding my head. I’ve been there. Those weeks where you just are not sure that you can deal with one more thing but then oddly enough you do.
Some things I read that Made me go Wow!:
Snake over at The Eclectic Garden.
Hips over at Views From Minnesota
How does she do that? : Winter Vignettes at Stop & Wander
Okay this has wore me out. I’ll return to my regularly scheduled feeling like complete crap. I gladly accept all sympathy that you want to toss my way and if someone wants to come and make me tea and rub my back it would be greatly appreciated!
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*Passing you some tea and sympathy*
I’ve been in bed most of the day, groaning about the waves of nausea.
I had a bad day earlier this week that wasn’t flu–but I remember when the boys were little’uns, and my honey was travelling all the time, and I started getting us all flu shots every year because I was terrified of being sick and not having anyone there to take care of me. I’m so sorry! I wish I was there to help.
The feeling and finding is mutual. Thank you for your comments and mention. Hope the bug only visits a short time.
Oh, you poor thing. Both you and Robin! So sorry to hear. Life will get better. Cake will taste good again. Meanwhile… jello hot is pretty good.
I’m going to check all these out over the next few days, I’m sure they’ll be good ones.
And of course it will take longer for you to get rid of it than it did your girls! I know what you mean about no one to take care of you when you’re sick! My girls still don’t and they’re 17 and 23. My son does but he’s over a hundred miles away from me.
Take care. Feel better.
Ugh! It’s not even fun to read or watch TV when you feel that bad…you just want to sleep until it’s over. I can’t believe you had the energy to put this compilation together.
I wondered why I had a couple of new comments on my scary food picture last night. Thanks
Oh, I’ve been that sick a couple of weeks ago. It wasn’t fun. Get back to bed and take care of yourself.
I hope that you will soon be feeling better. Drink lots of fluids – Amuirin is right, jello hot is good. Don’t over do things if you can help it for it will set you back a notch.
I always catch myself thinking, “I want my mom” when I’m sick. I want the chicken soup, and the cold washcloth on my head! I guess we never really outgrow that feeling! I hope you are doing better today.
No matter how old we get, we always want our moms when we’re sick.
My 28 yo called me a few weeks ago to tell me she was sick. I asked her if I could bring her anything (we live 40 miles apart) and she said “no”, she just needed me to know she was sick.
Poor thing! Wish I were close enough to bring you tea and toast. Hope you feel better soon.
Y’all are so sweet! I feel so virtually well taken care of. Thank you for your sympathy it was appreciated. If you ever need some I’ll gladly pass it around. I’ve come to find that this medium helps me to not feel so lonely in my lonely moments. I’m glad that you are all here.
Sue2: I feel that way too. I remember when I was in college being sick and calling home just to talk to my Mom. Even after I was married I would call her up and tell her I was sick and ask her to drop some things off with my then husband for me. She always knew what I needed when I was sick. I miss her all the time but when I’m sick I miss having my Mom to worry about me and take care of me.
Just yesterday I was thinking back to the horrifying week when I was, uh, chained to the bathroom, and wondering how in the name of almighty God single parents manage to take care of their kids and be sick at the same time. It was all I could do to feed my cats. I don’t know how you do it.
FYI, a teaspoon of white sugar dissolved in the mouth will often work wonders for helping to settle your stomach when you’re over the worst of the nausea phase of your illness.