Sickness

When i was a child I used to get very sick at least once a year. I mean sick as in 104 temp and convulsions on the floor ill. This continued up until I was in my low twenties then seemed to stop. It's actually happened twice since I've been with FW and scared her enough that every time I get a little sick she starts walking around holding the phone a squirt bottle and periodically checking my eyes for glazing.
The first time around FW was the worst, it was the first time I'd been ill around her and she unfortunately was not prepared for a man who doesn't like being babied or fussed over when he's sick. I was just plain mean, she informed me later. I curled up in a ball under a blanket and everytime she came near me I growled like an injured dog. When My fever started raging she started really worrying because I was half asleep and was yelling random things and when she tried to check on me I patted her cheek smiled at her and called her a "sweet child"
She called my mother first (the nurse) which is probably good, because she was thinking of calling the paramedics, that might have been overkill. My mother told her I needed to be in a lukewarm shower, not cold but cooler than me until I calmed down and began to act rationally, and my eyes no longer looked glazed or hazy.
Bless my mother for that one, little FW at 120lbs was supposed to drag my 250 into the shower? So she started gently and I rolled over and ignored her except for my nonsense I was spouting pretty steadily. She tried nagging, begging yelling, but I wasn't budging and I guess my fever was getting worse. I sat up suddenly on the bed a death grip on the sheets swaying and trying not to fall off. I was shouting about the legs falling off the bed and she called my mother again. This time mother could hear my shouts and she started to worry, as a child she'd always had my dad or brothers wrestle me into the shower if I got bad enough. She told FW to get some cold water and bath my head with it until she could bet me to get up and into the bathroom. FW didn't think of a washcloth or a sponge, nope my littel ray of sunshine got a spraybottle filled it full of crushed ice and water and started spraying me in the face. I actually quieted after some spluttering and gasping, she had breached the haze of the fever and I did get up and stand in the shower for quite a while trying not to fall over as she snuck in and gradually shut off the hot water.
The second time i got ill like that she didn't wait for full on nonsensical rantings when I was lying in bed half asleep feverish and mumbling hse started squirting me in the face again with that damn spray bottle. She wouldn't stop until I got up and took a shower. So aside from being terrified at the thought of getting sick, every time I don't feel well Fw makes me look at her every time she passes by me and checks my eyes for glaziness. (ha)
Yesterday at about 10 I left work feeling a bit ill and getting worse. When she came home and found me there she started the eye thing again. i was in no mood so I locked myself in the bedroom and fell asleep. About two hours later she picked the lock came in and shook me gently trying to feel my forehead to see how feverish I was ( I don't think I was, thank you) She said "You feel kind of hot." I was still mostly asleep and maybe a little out of it because I kind of jumped out of bed, in a monster little temper tantrum, stomped over to the bathroom muttering curses and got in the shower. When I got out I was feeling very clear headed and went into the living room. FW sitting there watching me so I say "Happy now?" I was still a little mad. She just started laughing, tears rolling down her face laughing, slapping the table with one hand holding her stomach in the other gales of laughter. What was so funny? Turns out she had come into the bedroom to tell me my cousin was on the phone and I had jumped up muttering about squirtguns and sleeping and stormed into the bathroom slammed the door and then proceeded to spend over an hour sleeping in the shower leaning against the wall with almost completely cold water running. Damn Alka seltser cold packs quite a wallop.