One of the Most Magical things about having a lover
You misspelled HUSBAND.
I dunno - my threshold for sympathy is much lower than my threshold for "a big deal." There's plenty of low-grade bugs that can make you feel like crap without being a big enough deal to call a doctor for.
I think since she worked as a nurse, she got so inured to stuff that was bad enough to land people in the hospital that anything less didn't ping her radar.
Me, I'm always willing to dish out the sympathy, even for a splinter.
I own a thermometer. It's somewhere around here. I can't remember the last time I had enough fever to need one.
~ma to Tom and Nora! (I'm really excited for you guys. NOLA always sounded so... like a place I need to visit some day. So).
Lover sounded more French?
I am sympathetic! I have sympathy coming out of my bottom! It's just...limited to 5 minutes and practicality. I am an excellent nurse; I bring hot tea and tuck blankets and make soup.
But I also yank the stitches without compunction. Gently. But they have to come out, yo.
For fun times? Read
The Stand
while wracked with a severe fever from a flu you caught from everyone else you know. Good times, good times.
Tom and Nora, you will find it! You JUST MOVED. Everything is topsy-turvy. But you will love it.
Time for you to go exploring in New Orleans, Nora. Get out of the house tomorrow, pick a neighborhood and get a good lunch.
Yeah, the weather's supposed to be nicer tomorrow. Ooh, the sun's out now! That's exciting, haven't seen that since Friday.
How much sympathy?
Cause I'm willing to "Tough break," a paper cut, but I won't drop everything to kiss it better, or anything.
My mother was absolutely determined that we wouldn't baby ourselves like my dad.
But she missed some times that we were really sick...it's hard to tell Wonder Woman you don't feel right though.
I am sympathetic! I have sympathy coming out of my bottom! It's just...limited to 5 minutes and practicality
Yep. This is me as well. And if someone's going to be grumpy at me when I'm trying to take care of them, then fuck off, you're on your own.