Being sick isn’t very blissful or is it? I’m currently battling a nasty case of the flu and I’ve been off work for a couple of days while trying to get better. The scratchy throat, constantly dripping nose, and overwhelming exhaustion are the furthest thing from bliss I could imagine. However, there are parts of being home sick that do verge on the blissful.
I rarely have the house and the tv to myself, especially during the summer when the kids are off school. However, as fate would have it I ended up home sick all alone for one glorious day when there was no one to intrude on my “misery.” No one at home meant that I got to spend the day snuggled in front of the TV watching reruns of crime dramas, my mind candy of choice, with no one turning the channel to check on the scores of the latest sporting event.
When fatigue set in and I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer, I was able to snuggle down in my nice warm bed in the middle of the day and take a nap. Sleep is one of the best medicines in the world as it gives your body time to repair itself and fight off infection, it also feels really good to take a nap in the middle of the day. When I woke up I found that “Nurse Luke,” my Aussie Shepard/Collie Mix had snuggled in next to me. When he realized I was awake, he licked my face and we snuggled for a while before I got up to wander downstairs and find something to eat. It seemed like way too much effort to actually cook something, so I settled on chocolate and fruit.
I drug myself off the couch long enough to get my daughter from work and she was very solicitous when she got home. She offered to fix me tea and although I didn’t take her up on it, the offer was very sweet. I was about to collapse again when hubby came home from work and he took one look at me and sent me back to bed.
It’s Saturday now and I have the house to myself for a few more hours and I’m trying to decide whether to keep blogging, to watch more mind candy, or to just go back upstairs and take another nap. Right now, it’s feeling as if the sore throat and stuffy nose are a small price to pay for the self indulgent bliss of mindless TV and naps during the middle of the day.
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