Doing acrobatics off the staircase
28 June 2007 by livingrainbowcolor
Still working on family illness and trying to keep up with work. Thankfully DH is an angel who understands that we both need time alone away from the sick room. This morning I went into work and he’ll go in this afternoon. Tonight I get to go out with a friend while he will be at work all day tomorrow.
My thinking goals are to stay positive, be open to creative solutions to keep the kid comfortable while she’s sick. Creativity is certainly needed, because she sleeps only an hour or two at a time, and needs lots of TLC in between.
On Tuesday night, I stayed up late with her, and finally fell asleep about 12 midnight. At 1:30, she tapped on my shoulder, asking for more hot tea. As I carried her cup downstairs, I missed the last step and fell, breaking the cup in the process. I was concentrating too much on the task and not enough on our spiral staircase.
The broken cup sliced into my thumb, right at the fleshy place between thumb and forefinger. DH decided it was too deep and big a cut to ignore, so he took me off to the hospital, where I got 2 stitches. Great way to complicate our life at the moment.
There are 2 bad things about the cut and stitches: 1) daughter needed to be reassured that it wasn’t her fault and 2) I can’t swim until the stitches come out. The reassuring the daughter came easy - such an accident could have happened at any time.
Swimming (aquajogging) is what I’ll really miss. That might even bump up against the closing time of my favorite pool, which will be closed during the school vacation. Bummer.
Eating hasn’t been too bad, but I miss getting enough vegetables. It was easy when I ate warm meals at work, but now that I’m home it’s harder. My goal is to eat moderately and not worry about eating less for weight loss.
My positives
- I’ll get to find a new way to burn energy for a couple of weeks. So far, it’s been going up and down the stairs at home a jillion times a day
- DD is really connecting emotionally with us, and the TLC is bringing us together
- I revisited in my head all of my old childhood haunts, and it was a pleasure
- These moments of hand-holding and comforting my daughter are very peaceful, reflective times
- I’m noticing very little emotional eating.
