Awful Sick

There is something particularly bad about feeling sick, like throw up, body ache, sore throat, coughing sick. In the rest of the world thats a bad enough thing and I gather that with wintertime, its going around and kind of normal, routine sick time. However, when you get sick the the desert, its 80 out, sunny, a nice warm breeze blowing, you feel even worse. I have never minded a bad sick when its cold out, grey, rainy, and you can cuddle up, turn up the heat, put on a fire, watch TV or videos.

However, when sick in the desert, the windows are open, you can hear kids out playing, the breeze blows by, the last thing you want to do when its 80 out is get under a blanket and pull the covers up over your head.

So here, it looks like this and you should be out golfing or romping around in the sun. Instead you are cradling your head above a garbage can wishing youd throw up so you can get it over with and feel better. Wishing it was all over.....

"Mommy, help me make the bad sick stop !"