Cesspool of infection
I love the people I work with. I really do.
They are quirky, funny and extremely smart
BUT
They are all bunch of sickos now, with varrying recovery cycles
which means that when one is sick, has taken a sick day to recover and goes back the next day, semi-recovered, one is assaulted by germs from on-the-way-to-getting-way-sicker colleague.
The boy will find me Stuffed up, burned up, with sore throat when he reaches smalltown today.
I MUST, MUST get better because the boy is a baaaaaaaaaaaaad caregiver.
The worst.
Worse than the father.
The father yells his way through your sickness.
"You are sick. I TOLD YOU you were going to get sick. Did I not tell you you were going to get sick. Who told you to eat that ice-cream? And did I not see you drinking cold water? MOL, AND HOW MANY TIMES should I tell you not to switch on the A/C after a bath? How many times? What?
Your throat is aching?
DID you gargle with salt water, like I told you?
DID YOU?
you did.
ok.
But did you drink the soup?
WHAT?
You don't feel like drinking soup?
WHAT?"
At some point, my mother hustles him out of the room and locks him away somewher while she took care of us.
I wish my mother would come and lock the boy away too when he gets here.
The boy does likes to analyze the causes of the disease.
"Well, how is it that you are going through this cycle of getting sick, getting better and then getting sick again?"
Well, you know everybody office is sick too. So everytime I get better, somebody else gets sick and then...
"No. I don't think that's it. I think everytime you get better, you go ahead and do something bad like drinking cold water and then... So I definetely thinks it's you"
How is this helpful?
"Because the next time you are sick, you can avoid what you are doing and maybe listen to me more. Now did you do the gargling thing I asked you to? Did you"
SHUT UP. JUST SHUT UP.
I need my mommy and I hope to God that if the boy does get my germs, they lay underground and only flare up after he gets back to sunnyland.
I know, I am a horrible fiancee/girlfriend.
But you have no idea what a helpless baby he becomes when he is sick or thinks he's sick.
7 comments:
Ooh, I totally sympathize on the Dad thing. Does have 100% hindsight, but not a helpful bedside manner.
However, although this sounds gross, gargling DOES help. The salt in the hot water dries up the fluid in your throat tissues, thus de-inflaming your throat. or so Reader's Digest said. And it seems to work for me.
P.S- Is it too late for a flu shot?
M.L.
aren't all men helpless babies when they're sick? btw, as anon above said, gargling really does help.
Merry Christmas me
Cold-eez also work very well. Also, there are some teas you can buy (do you have a Ukrops in smalltown?) that have neames like Immune Support and Breathe Easy and are also pretty yummy. I hope you feel better soon!
ALL MEN are sick babies... and yet, somehow they know EXACTLY what to do to fix it when it is YOU that is sick. Go figure.
D is a great caregiver but he is hopeless and helpless when he's sick.
By the way, you and I have the same surname and I'm convinced our fathers are related. : )
Here's the difference between boys and girls. Boys will try to fix the problem, even if the girl doesn't want the problem fixed. Girls will try to work through the problem.
Boys hate feeling that they can't fix what's wrong with their loved ones. So, they try to be macho about it.
Girls, most of the time, don't have this problem.
Good luck.
:)
oooh Paperback,
You said it!!! That's what the boy is like.
Mint - we very well could be. Me chutney and Mint Chutney, long lost cousins.
Girlysmack - Oh thank you thank you the Cold-eez worked like a charm.
Sayre - yes!!! Men are such babies.
Sueammama - Hope you had an excellent Christmas...Happy New Year.
M.L - too late for flu shot but next year I am getting one :)
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