The Best Thing About It!

I loved having the flu, bug, virus, salmonella poisoning, or whatever 2+ week "thingy" was hanging out in me from the end of December to the middle of January! No...I'm serious! (Ok, there were some gruesome bits about it and I lost a lot of weight...no worries, I've since reclaimed it!)

The best part about being "actively" sick, was being "actively" sick at the same time as Scott! It was kind of like a spontaneous marriage retreat... Picture in your mind, the chapter from the Little House On the Prairie book, where Ma and Pa are so sick with "fever 'n' ague"...

and the whole family is dragging themselves about on the ground trying to attend to everyone's needs (finally Laura, heroically, makes it to the refrigerator and pours a dipper full of gatorade to bring back to the bedside!).

And then, picture the two sets of Grandparents from "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory" that never got out of bed! We were those two combined...and in a very "sick" way, it was really funny!

All we could do...besides rushing in the needed directions every 5 minutes, was laugh at our pathetic, sleep-deprived, chilled and fevered selves, who were allowing our children to rule themselves in a somewhat "Lord of the Flies" way...

We had no energy or desire to read or watch television or roust about on the computer. We just laid there in the depths of despair and "disgusting-ness"... together, laughing, talking and being sick...together!

And so... therefore... in conclusion... I will always look at the opening weeks of 2009 as a favorite terrible memory of mine, because I got to be disgustingly sick with my favorite husband and spend a good portion of two weeks laughing weakly together!