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I love my wife very much, and she does her best to take care of me when I'm sick. It's just that. . . that kind of thing isn't really her strong suit. I mean, she's working off of a default skill level, y'know?
So, Lis does NOT expect me to, like, cook for her and stuff when I'm in bed most of the day, so, when she got home, she said that she'd go out for dinner and bring me back soup. She was going to go to one of the Chinese restaurants we like, and bring me back a big container of their wonton soup, which is very good stuff when you're sick.
She came back an hour or so later, and said that she'd changed her mind and went to the sushi place instead, and got me udon noodle soup.
I opened it up, and felt slightly queasy. It's a fish stock soup, which makes sense because it's a sushi restaurant. I don't like fish at the best of times (except for a few things, and sushi is among the fish I like, but not fish stock, even at a sushi restaurant. I do like chowder, however, even fish chowder with a fish stock, as long as it has enough cream, butter, and potatoes in it. My food preferences are kind of random and weird). Anyway, while on a normal day, I'd probably like the udon noodle soup, tonight, I couldn't handle it.
The side dish that came with it was tempura shrimp. Which I don't usually eat, and really couldn't handle tonight.
She felt REALLY bad about this. "I failed my 'Get Soup For My Husband' roll!"
However, after that, she went back out and bought me ginger ale and Moxie, which makes up for it. And graham crackers. And she offered to go out to a different restaurant and get me soup, but it was already quarter of ten, and I couldn't see sending her out that late.
But, y'know, soup is usually fungible for me. But not when I'm sick. Normally, if I don't have one kind of soup, I'll have another kind of soup, and I'll like it, which is what Lis was thinking -- and she'd have been totally correct on a normal day. Most days, I would have really liked the udon soup. But, when I'm sick, and I want soup, I want exactly that kind of soup from exactly that restaurant.
So, I'm kind of hungry and soup-less. And Lis feels really bad about this, and I hope that, when she reads this, it doesn't make her feel bad, again. Because, most of the time, her actions would have been 100% reasonable, so I don't hold it against her.
She does so many things so well, and she is such a wonderful person. But, well, we both are aware that "taking care of sick people" is just not one of the things she's good at. But I love her anyway.
So, Lis does NOT expect me to, like, cook for her and stuff when I'm in bed most of the day, so, when she got home, she said that she'd go out for dinner and bring me back soup. She was going to go to one of the Chinese restaurants we like, and bring me back a big container of their wonton soup, which is very good stuff when you're sick.
She came back an hour or so later, and said that she'd changed her mind and went to the sushi place instead, and got me udon noodle soup.
I opened it up, and felt slightly queasy. It's a fish stock soup, which makes sense because it's a sushi restaurant. I don't like fish at the best of times (except for a few things, and sushi is among the fish I like, but not fish stock, even at a sushi restaurant. I do like chowder, however, even fish chowder with a fish stock, as long as it has enough cream, butter, and potatoes in it. My food preferences are kind of random and weird). Anyway, while on a normal day, I'd probably like the udon noodle soup, tonight, I couldn't handle it.
The side dish that came with it was tempura shrimp. Which I don't usually eat, and really couldn't handle tonight.
She felt REALLY bad about this. "I failed my 'Get Soup For My Husband' roll!"
However, after that, she went back out and bought me ginger ale and Moxie, which makes up for it. And graham crackers. And she offered to go out to a different restaurant and get me soup, but it was already quarter of ten, and I couldn't see sending her out that late.
But, y'know, soup is usually fungible for me. But not when I'm sick. Normally, if I don't have one kind of soup, I'll have another kind of soup, and I'll like it, which is what Lis was thinking -- and she'd have been totally correct on a normal day. Most days, I would have really liked the udon soup. But, when I'm sick, and I want soup, I want exactly that kind of soup from exactly that restaurant.
So, I'm kind of hungry and soup-less. And Lis feels really bad about this, and I hope that, when she reads this, it doesn't make her feel bad, again. Because, most of the time, her actions would have been 100% reasonable, so I don't hold it against her.
She does so many things so well, and she is such a wonderful person. But, well, we both are aware that "taking care of sick people" is just not one of the things she's good at. But I love her anyway.