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Topic: This and That
Hello. Yesterday (Monday) starting around 2am, I got hit with a nasty stomach virus. It was not pretty. I spent a lot of the wee hours on the bathroom floor. (Rolls of toilet paper make good makeshift pillows, btw.)
Ryan was so great. He really was an angel. I could just barely manage to get him fed and change his diapers once in a while. I was laid out on the couch most of the day, dozing off and on. (Which is something I would never, ever normally do with Ryan there.) At one point, Ryan came over to me and gently stroked my face, then went back to playing. It was so sweet! I am sure he knew I was sick. He kept himself entertained and did not demand anything from me all day.
Later on in the day, after an especially bad attack, I called my friend Sarah. I told her I was thinking about calling our URG leader, Alison, to see if someone could come over and help. (Sarah would have, but her husband is TDY and she has two little ones herself.) Sarah suggested I go ahead and call Alison, so I did. Alison was great. Within a few minutes, she told me another lady from our URG, Christina, would be by my house with Gatorade. Alison told me she would call me to check on me later. (She too, said she would come by, except that she had various things going on with her three kids that evening that she couldn't miss.) Alison made me the most amazing offer: she told me that she would take Ryan overnight if I needed her to. That meant so much to me! However, Ryan has become pretty good about sleeping through the night (most of the time), so I didn't need to take her up on it. Still, I thought that considering Alison's got three kids herself (one isn't much older than Ryan), that was a very generous offer. (It makes me think of a night my good friend Sabrina took Ryan overnight back in those dark days of chronic sleep deprivation. It was bliss! Sabrina, I will be forever grateful!)
Later on in the evening, Alison stopped by. She delivered a basket Sarah had put together. It was wonderful! There was warm rice, and chicken soup. There was a toddler meal for Ryan (I had no idea what I was going to feed him for dinner until then), there was all manner of cold/flu medication, as well as tea and other goodies to eat. She included napkins and plastic utensils, bath salts, and magazines. There were a couple of nice home made fruit cups with all the kinds of fruit I like in them. There was also a cute package of kleenex. It was amazing! I was completely blown away. It was so nice, much needed, and very appreciated.
I have to give a huge thumbs up for Alison, Sarah, and Christina for being there for me and Ryan. It made me feel like I wasn't alone, and made me feel taken care of. That's one thing I really love about military communities. Since our husbands are gone so much, people really pitch in and are there for each other when the need arises. I know not all military communities are great, but I've been very lucky with the two I've been in so far.
I feel much, much better today, thank goodness! I was tempted to jump up and do all sorts of things around the house, but after getting light headed and having my stomach start hurting again after just a little exertion, I thought better of it.
Now for something completely different...
Has anyone heard the British slang term, "snog?" For some reason, I find the word extremely amusing. Come on - say it out loud. "Snog." I dare you! Make the person sitting near you wonder what-the-heck. The first time I came across it, I couldn't get the exact meaning out of the context. It was something like, "We were snogging in the back seat of the car," or something like that. I got the general idea, but didn't know the exact act "snog" referred to. I now know that it refers to kissing - but not the kind of kiss you'd give a relative (hopefully). It just sounds so... gross. Just swap the word "snog" for "kiss" (or "snogging" for "kissing") in any sentence and it seems to take on a whole new connotation.
I think Ryan is up from his nap. Hope everyone is having a good week so far.
Posted by hkvlayman
at 3:27 PM GMT