Pictoral revelations and screaming knees
Posted 12-01-2010 at 12:08 PM by doomclam
If you've never heard the person you love screaming in agony while you are powerless to stop it, count yourself lucky.
The other day, my wife stepped off a curb, only to find out her knee just didn't work. She spent the day at home, several hours of which was spent laying on the couch crying at the top of her lungs because it hurt so bad. This isn't a sissy girl either, this is a girl who has broken numerous bones and been injured ad nauseum in the sport of roller derby, and the classification of agony does not come easily to her. But she was screaming, crying and pounding on the floor, as I sat watching, immobile, unable to help. Finally once the pain has laid off a little, she's nodding off to sleep, so I go into the back room. Five seconds later, I hear a thump, and I go back out to see she's fallen asleep, overbalanced and fallen off the couch, landing on her knee. I thought the screams previously were bad, but I hadn't heard these yet. This was worse, because concern for her was coupled with guilt. If I hadn't left the room, I could have caught her. Bah.
On the other side of things though, on the Thanksgiving trip her mother expressed a desire for new recent pics, in particular one that was taken at one of my shows, in which she's festooned with glitter, silver dreadlocks and a gorgeous smile. My parents got on the bandwagon, then it occurred to us that we wanted pics of us for our walls. So five hours of printing later, I've seen and printed so many pics it's astounding.
It's given me some surreal moments though. I was well aware of this fact, but looking through all the pictures and printing so many made me realize once again: my wife is the most gorgeous person on the face of the earth. Even with her sitting in the same room with me, I find it hard to look at some of the pictures of her, simply because she is SO mind blowingly beautiful. Not just physically, but the light shining from her eyes and from her smile on some of them, like the ones from our wedding, and the ones from the shows I've done, when she's backstage and in her element. It boggles the mind, how I ended up with her. I wish there was someOne I could thank for such a thing. It is the most luck which has ever been bestowed upon me and I don't know what I did to deserve it.
The other day, my wife stepped off a curb, only to find out her knee just didn't work. She spent the day at home, several hours of which was spent laying on the couch crying at the top of her lungs because it hurt so bad. This isn't a sissy girl either, this is a girl who has broken numerous bones and been injured ad nauseum in the sport of roller derby, and the classification of agony does not come easily to her. But she was screaming, crying and pounding on the floor, as I sat watching, immobile, unable to help. Finally once the pain has laid off a little, she's nodding off to sleep, so I go into the back room. Five seconds later, I hear a thump, and I go back out to see she's fallen asleep, overbalanced and fallen off the couch, landing on her knee. I thought the screams previously were bad, but I hadn't heard these yet. This was worse, because concern for her was coupled with guilt. If I hadn't left the room, I could have caught her. Bah.
On the other side of things though, on the Thanksgiving trip her mother expressed a desire for new recent pics, in particular one that was taken at one of my shows, in which she's festooned with glitter, silver dreadlocks and a gorgeous smile. My parents got on the bandwagon, then it occurred to us that we wanted pics of us for our walls. So five hours of printing later, I've seen and printed so many pics it's astounding.
It's given me some surreal moments though. I was well aware of this fact, but looking through all the pictures and printing so many made me realize once again: my wife is the most gorgeous person on the face of the earth. Even with her sitting in the same room with me, I find it hard to look at some of the pictures of her, simply because she is SO mind blowingly beautiful. Not just physically, but the light shining from her eyes and from her smile on some of them, like the ones from our wedding, and the ones from the shows I've done, when she's backstage and in her element. It boggles the mind, how I ended up with her. I wish there was someOne I could thank for such a thing. It is the most luck which has ever been bestowed upon me and I don't know what I did to deserve it.
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