So much of my days are consumed with being a secretary for Tom: disability, health and travel insurance claims, work and personal emails, returning phone calls, writing updates for family and friends, reading him comments on Facebook posts.<\/p>\n
I don’t mind. It’s easy work and the compensation is very high.<\/p>\n
Like today, I got to take a nap with him.<\/p>\n
It was the quiet hour, right after dinner but before evening meds are passed. Mr. Benson, Tom’s roommate, was pretty quiet after I cut up the meat on his dinner plate.<\/p>\n
I curled up on Tom’s left side, with his good arm around me, my head cradled on his muscled shoulder. I have missed that so much – just his presence, the strength and calm that he emanates.<\/p>\n
And even now, with a stroke weakening his entire right side, he still feels so reassuring. <\/p>\n
It is the greatest relief just to be next to him. <\/p>\n
We fell asleep.<\/p>\n
Two tall people in a single hospital bed doesn’t leave much wiggle room. We were wedged in together taking up every bit of that mattress between the siderails.<\/p>\n
We were comfortable. We didn’t mind.<\/p>\n
Today’s penny is a 2014. That’s the year I started taking naps again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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