My Wife Is Awesome

Yesterday, my wife worked her butt off and made a decent chunk of change for the family, and she did it in a situation that was detrimental to herself. Here's it went and how I responded.

She had to work from sometime in the afternoon, three or so, until almost nine she was gone. It was close to an hour each way to drive and the rest of the time was massage, one after another, on lots of (grateful) people. What makes it kind of tough, though, is that she has a slightly injured shoulder, so about three-quarters of the way through, it really started bothering her. I, of course, didn't know this.

I knew she was working long and hard and would be hungry, though, so I started making a lovely meal. This meal was also intended, of course, to feed the children, who were as close to ungrateful about it as they're allowed to be. I guess they don't like mushrooms as much as my wife and I, and I guess I'm not worried about that. She was quite glad about the food when she came home, but almost as soon as I saw her, I realized something wasn't right. It was her arm, which apparently was weak, tired, and killing her from the issue in her shoulder causing some wicked referred pain.

After we ate, she lay on the floor on some blankets and tried to rest, but her arm was apparently really bothering her. Luckily, she's taught me some of her moves, as have some other folks, and I dug my hands into her unhappy shoulder and worked on several of the knots (most of which are actually in the upper branch of pectoralis major, for anatomy nerds out there) and then turned my attention to a more loving, gentle, relaxing massage. I don't know how much it helped, but she seems to think it was pretty good. Then, even though I did all the meal making, since her arm felt like crap (and even though my leg has been hurting for about a month, making standing for long periods not that good), I did the dishes.

So... I took up the slack, I guess, at a time of need. That's how we roll at my house, and I think it's a large part of our success in our relationship.