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Monday, May 14, 2007
Chicken soup for the soul
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hello everyone! I missed you muchly while I was in the midst of recovery from my tonsillectomy and sinus surgery! Thanks again to Wise Diva for holding down the fort and Bella for filling in again. I was checking in on y’all, even if it was too much effort to write.
I think the worst part of my recovery, once the immediate pain had passed of course, was how helpless I felt. For about two weeks, it was a lot of effort to move over enough in bed to find the remote or my medicine, let alone to get up and walk to the kitchen to get something to drink! And forget about being able to walk my dog, or run errands if I ran out of something, or cook anything more involved than hitting start on the microwave.
I’m a pretty independent woman, and I definitely am not the type to rely on a guy to take care of me during the normal course of things. But I couldn’t help but find myself thinking it would have been pretty nice to have a boyfriend to come pamper me and take care of me during my post-surgical convalescence.
What do you do — or have you done in the past — when your significant other is sick? Are you a hands-on nurse, or do you try to give them their space?
When you are sick, do you want your partner to take care of you? What things would you want them to do?
What level of “taking care of you” do you expect early in the relationship vs. later on down the road?
Have you ever had a situation where someone you were dating became ill with something more than just a cold or the chicken pox — cancer, or something else very serious and chronic? How did you react to that? Would you stick around while they recovered? I am reminded of a book I really like, The Dive From Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer, wherein the main character’s boyfriend is paralyzed in a diving accident. She leaves him (which she was planning to do before the accident, not because of the accident) and incurs the scorn of a lot of people — but are you obligated to stay with a sick or injured partner just because they are sick?
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