Month 1: In Sickness and in Health

A Serbian friend told me that back in her home country, many people get sick after they wed, and all it means is that you have lived through the event fully. If that’s the case, I really did live through my wedding to the fullest!

…I didn’t mention this in my wedding recap, but the other side of the story was that I was under the weather a couple days before the big day. I was determined not be sick on the wedding day though, and was popping back Buckley’s pills, Halls and Vicks like no tomorrow. My throat was still killing me, and by the time our speech rolled around, my voice was going. The next morning, it was completely gone.

So now, I really do know that someone loves you when he can deal with your painful, hacking cough all night; when he doesn’t recoil at your endless snot and the nasty phlegm; when he can look you in the eye when you have pinkeye; and when he has the patience to try and decipher what you’re trying to say when you have no voice.

One month after we said our vows, it seems that the bug I caught has been incubating in K, and so, in sickness and in health, it’s now my turn to take care of him.