Childhood Colds.

Monday, October 02, 2017

I have come down with a cold. It's a strange kind of cold. Usually everything with a cold is supposed to be fuzzy and spaced out. But my mind has been functioning fairly reasonably as my body has gone weaker and weaker. I know I just need rest, and I’ll be okay. Perhaps these seasonal colds are reminder from nature to just slow down.

Dylan has been making me coffee and tea, and getting me soup and making sure I take all the medication on time. I have been alone for so long that I had almost forgotten how its liked to be taken care of. His incessant nagging and making sure I don’t move reminds me of my childhood and how it was like to be sick.

Do you remember it? How your mom would make a big fuss over a sore throat. How, before you even knew it, there would be a cold washcloth on your head? Somehow that washcloth is every mother’s remedy to every sickness. Do you recall the taste of that grape/cherry/orange cough syrup that came with its own plastic spoon? That was the worse. Do you remember your stuffy nose and your heavy eyes? Do you recall your family begging you to eat something and somehow everything they offered was just not up to par.

There was always an upside to it though – no school. And the off day came with zero guilt. You had a good justification to stay at home when everyone else had to go, and something about staying at home smack in the middle of the week makes the whole day looks so different, even if it through your heavy eyes. Do you remember lying on the couch all day watching VHS of Disney cartoons one after another? And realizing that its only noon even after the 12th movie, because time just seemed to slow down. Do you remember walking around the house in a blankie? Everything is acceptable when you are sick. I mostly recall passing out at the couch in the living room and waking up tucked in bed. If that didn’t make it all okay, I wouldn’t know what would.

It’s good to be sick sometime. Between the non-stop coughing and the pitiful groans, its good to know that at some point in your life, you were taken care of and if you are lucky, someone is taking care of you right now.

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  1. Oh yes - I remember childhood colds and how my mum always looked after me.

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    1. Those are the sweetest memories :-)

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  2. You can romanticise even sickness through magic of your words. How I missed reading and writing. Always a pleasure to read you.

    That white cloth still happen if I am with parents as I am a crazy dragon when down with fever.

    You get well soon.

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  3. Oh I loved best the tons of pillows placed on my bed. Mom knew I love pillows.... soft large pillows. :-).. It banished the colds away to never-more-land!

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  4. A beautiful reverie into growing up, and probably hoping not to grow up, ever... My grandma used to make a big fuss when I was under the weather. Those are difficult memories.

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    1. I am sorry, I didnt mean to invoke any bad memories.

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  5. I almost never fall sick but when I do, I revel in being an absolute baby about it :P

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    1. Aww. I think we all deserve to be pampered every once in a while!

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  6. I hope uou feel better soon ... its nicd that youre getting some pampering... great memories of growing up and being treated so well becuuse you're sick,, it's a nice feeling xox ♡♡♡

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    1. Yes indeed. Childhood pleasures. I am feeling better now :-)

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  7. Please get well soon. Hope you are fine now. I remember childhood diseases and it was similar sort of moment when I used to get a lot of attention from parents. Of course, a school leave was one of the privileges. Also, I don't know but I seem to like your site design here. Everything here in the scroll, turning pages, is so smooth. I like the creative aspects along with the writing here.

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  8. Yhh so true. I wish i had not grown up.

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