Sunday afternoon

I was finally able to get my husband down for a nap. You see when he is awake his needs are constant. If I go off to do my own thing, he wants to know what I am doing, why I am doing it, and offers suggestions on how to do it. This reminds me when I was the mother of 3 preschool children. .....constant talking, motion and comotion. To add to the lack of "time for Joyce" my husband has been sick with a cold for about 10 days. Colds are miserble, I know this because I have had one myself a time or two. But of course, my husband's is the worse ever and he is keeping me infromed of his misery minute by minute. His bedtime ritual of medication, salves, sprays,eye drops and syrups is more complicated than any medical procedure I have ever done for a really sick person in all my years of hospital nursing. Luckily, my husband has a patient wife and I'll get through this and even sneak in some time for myseld along the way.