Story of teh Day 5/ 6/ 2009

Sarah has been ill.

Ill as in feverish with no appetite, a headache, and extreme fatigue. Extreme enough that I have started to think of her snoring as normal daytime background noise. Okay, she doesn’t’ snore, most of the time, but you get the idea.

On Monday, she was awake for a grand total of one hour.
That included the time she used peeing, taking Tylenol and moaning.
Oh, and when she sat at the table and didn’t’ drink the tea I made for her.

On Tuesday, yesterday, she was awake for about 3 ½ hours. Only 1 of those hours was before 4 PM.
And she did drink a bit more tea.
She also moaned a bit less.

This morning, she moaned.

A couple of hours later, she got up and ate a waffle. With some tea.

At lunch time, she had a small bowl of mashed potatoes. And some tea.
While she ate her mashed potatoes, we sat at the table in the breakfast room. From there we can look out onto the patio and the back yard.It would have been pretty, except that it was gray and rainy.
Sarah said to me, “It is nice that the grass was mowed, yesterday.”

It took me a moment.

“That was two days ago, on Monday. Today is Wednesday.”

Sarah looked at me as if that simply couldn’t be true.
“Today is Wednesday?”
The unspoken part was , “What happened to Tuesday?” She had somehow realized that she had slept through an entire day, and factored that in. But , she couldn’t understand how she had slept through two of them.

But today is Wednesday. Well, it is for the people who have been awake since Sunday.
I checked the newspaper , to be sure.