You know when you’re sick and can’t manage to do anything? Where your body is just too weak to move and all you want is someone to take care of everything so you can just sleep? That was my day yesterday. I have no clue what was wrong with me, or still is, but yesterday was a pretty rough day.
I woke up with a burning in my stomach and thought I just needed to drink something, but as the next hour progressed, I could barely stand up from my body hurting so much. Shortly after Troy left for work (after finishing preparing his lunch, which I usually do, and tucking me in), I started throwing up. It was awful. Thankfully, I was able to sleep for most of the day and only woke up to throw up a few times. I kept hoping that I’d start feeling better soon because the realtor was coming over to have another guy look at the mold spot in my room, but that didn’t happen. And it didn’t help knowing I’d have to be social and look decent when these people showed up. Seriously, they’re going to have people looking at this spot (which has grown to be about three feet long and two feet or so wide) until the day we move out.
Anyways, I kept feeling worse and my body just hurt too much to move, so I called Troy and asked if he could come home to take care of the realtor stuff. He didn’t even hesitate. He told me he would come home to take care of it and that he’d leave in the next little while. I was able to fall asleep after that without having to worry about making sure I was awake and presentable when the realtor got here. When they did show up, all I had to do was pull the blanket over my head so they couldn’t see me. haha.
Troy really was such a help yesterday. He’s got so much going on with work and is stressed out with all of that, but yesterday he put most of that aside to take care of me. True, I spent most of the afternoon sleeping and the realtor was only here for a few minutes, but the fact that Troy came home to take care of it instead of asking me to postpone it until I was well enough to do it myself was such a relief. Just him being here, working in the other room, made me feel better in a way. I guess it’s just the whole thing of not having to be alone while being so sick.
With Troy being home to take care of when the realtor came, I was able to sleep better and I also got to stay in bed (on the couch?) more because whenever I needed cold water, Troy would bring me a bottle from the fridge. He also took care of feeding Sadie (which he does fairly regularly) and made me soup for dinner. My stomach was still too upset to eat much of it, but he still made it for me so I wouldn’t have to. He teased me for a bit in the evening, asking if I seriously wasn’t going to make dinner. The bum. lol. He ended up ordering food since I wasn’t able to go grocery shopping yesterday and we don’t have much to eat at the moment. He offered to order something for me, but food didn’t sound good at all until later, which is when he made me some soup. He also ran downstairs to the little convenience store to buy me some Sprite when I asked him to. They only had 7-Up, but that works almost as well. I was hoping it would calm my stomach and it did a bit.
Later in the evening, Troy was talking about dishes and said I should have a maid come do the dishes since they haven’t been washed in a couple of days and we’re out of bowls and spoons (we only have 4 bowls and 5 spoons), but then later he washed a bunch of dishes himself so I could rest today instead of having to be mobile with someone else in the house.
All in all, Troy was such a help yesterday. It was really nice having him around to just be there and take care of me. He does such a good job of helping out and picking up the slack when I’m sick. I really am thankful for him and all he does for me.
Today, I’m feeling much better. Still weak and my stomach is a bit unhappy, but my body doesn’t ache anywhere near as much as it did yesterday and I’m able to eat little bits at a time. I think a lot of that is because Troy pretty much took care of everything yesterday so I could stay in bed and rest as much as possible.
I’m so thankful for Troy and how much of a help he is when I need it. He may be gruff and caustic most of the time, but when it counts, he’s kind and compassionate and helpful. I’m very thankful for all the times he picks up the slack when I’m not able to do what I need to do and I’m thankful for how willing he is to take care of me when I need it. He really is a great guy, even though he’ll probably shoot me for saying all this. He doesn’t like people to know how nice he really is. But, he is. He’s very kind and generous and compassionate. It’s just hidden under a couple layers of sarcasm and ‘boy’. lol.
