The best thing about being sick...

Getting sick or feeling bad is no fun. As a kid, being sick at school was the worst. Walking to the nurse's office, that pungent smell of latex, and the skeptical nurse looking you up and down sizing out your "illness." Then you'd lay on the uncomfortable tables with the thin cushion mat on top and the pillow that always grossed my out wondering how many other sick heads laid on it earlier. But the best thing about getting sick at school was seeing my Poppop walk through the doors to take me back to his house.

I have two working parents, so often times my Nonnie and Poppop would be called to take me out of school. Laying on the nurse room bed, feeling like pooh and in walks in Poppop. Then we'd drive over to his house and Nonnie would be waiting with a pot of soup on the stove and ginger ale handy. That was always the best part of getting sick while at school.

Now, I'm 22 and sitting at work. I'm not sick but I'm achy and I want to go back to bed. I keep looking to the door, hoping to see Poppop walk in to scoop me up and take me home with him... where Nonnie would meet me with a cup of hot chocolate.

Thank you Nonnie and Poppop for always taking such good care of me when I was sick!