Scary

Last night around two or something in the morning when I was doing my usual lying on the bed waiting for my wife to finish all her neko chores so I can take a shower (man, that just sounds bad on me, unfortunately it’s true) when she comes in bent double. She crawls onto the floor, rolls onto her back, and lies there. And that’s how she stays for awhile. I hold her hand and wait till she can talk again. Finally she tells me her stomach was hurting so bad she couldn't stand straight and for a while she couldn’t even breathe. God to think if anything should happen to her… A lot of scary thoughts went through my head. And shameful ones, like how I wouldn't be able to take care of her like she has with me. But after, I don't know, ten--twenty minutes, she got up there was no repeat of the occurrence nor did she mention a stomach ache again. 

Was it the fish?

The medicine she’s taking for her skin?

Something else?

Something else is always worse, isn’t it? Anyway, today is around Obon in Japan, vacations, people with time off and small shops closing here and there. Maybe her clinic? That’s where she’s going to today, her skin clinic, that medicine I mentioned isn’t working. You know, maybe I should be more specific on what’s wrong with her skin, but I won’t. I know my wife wouldn’t like it. It’s too painful for her, and I mean as in embarrassing pain not the physical kind, so I won’t go into detail. It’s not that bad, like some huge red blotch or something, but wife’s skin is very important to her, as it is to many women (didn’t say all, but with all those skin cream commercials and what not out there it would be impossible to believe women in market segment general didn’t care about their skin). Anyway, hope this is all we have to worry about with her health.