Comments on: This Week in Review, Getting Well Edition

By: The Digerati Life

The Digerati Life — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:56:52 +0000

Hope your wife gets better soon! It’s a bear to be sick…. In my household, the roles are reversed. My husband is the “nice” one and I’m the one who tells everyone to “suck it up”! Lol. But really, I’m nice… (like you say)

So glad to be able to help!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:43:45 +0000

Ha Ha! very cute couple! I am honored. Have a nice weekend.

By: Todd Metheny

Todd Metheny — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:57:06 +0000

That’s good advice Steve. I had Rachel read your comment, and she nodded the entire time. Thank you.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:56:00 +0000

Just to wish Rachel well. Hope she gets better soon. Regarding helping out when a significant other is sick… there are times when I feel like I don’t do enough. I have found that when I am sick, it is an emotional event; when others are sick, it is a mental event. To be involved in others sickness, I try to make it an emotional event.

So, I have tried to think/imagine how I felt when I was as sick as they are… (2-5 minutes – visualizing how it sucked; how Iprayed for quick recovery, and how all the help was great.)

Next, I look back at all the things that people have done for, and I try to do some of them: sit by the bed side; lie ib bed with them; not worry about being sick too; make hot tea; do the dishes; buy a card (love you, instead of get well soon

Anyway, I just thought I should also share my struggles, and how I have tried to overcome them. It is an ongoing “battle” for me. Good luck!

By: Todd Metheny

Todd Metheny — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:26:30 +0000

Thanks Sun. It was nice to read an account from someone that lived in China. It’s easy for the media to misunderstand something in the process of shaping a story. Tiananmen Square is a sad one, for sure. I’d like to think that the people that died there helped change and improve the way China is governed.

By: Sun

Sun — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:35:54 +0000

Thanks for the mention. The event 20 years ago taught me a lot. I am glad that it has brought so many positive changes to China in the years that followed.