Today should have been...

By all memories of the past, today should have been a bad one. First of all, Hubby is sick. And when he's sick then he's really cranky. More so than usual. Then on top of that he was out of his pain medication, and then on top of THAT, I forgot to call the doctor's office to see if they accept his new insurance.

A week ago this would have been a sure sign that I don't care at all about him. That's his kick these days. "People who CARE don't do that." But rather than yell, or even lecture me, he just accepted that I would do it today (which I did,) and he bopped off to work without another word about it. I called the dr's office and unfortunately they don't accept his new insurance, so now I have to find a new doctor and make an appointment for him on Tuesday ...

After I woke up this evening, I was able to notice right away that he was still in a bad mood. He gets this aura about him when he's irritable. One of those things that makes him really difficult to be around when he's feeling like that. Well he almost lost it when his movie turned off because the DVR started recording 2 things at once. He left the room in a huff, and I fixed the TV. I went in to tell him that it was fixed and ask him what was wrong. He snapped at me that he is hurting and sick, so I got him some pain reliever (he never thinks to get some on his own... it's one of his quirks I guess) and left him alone for a few minutes. He came out of the room a few minutes later and very calmly told me that when he's feeling like that and one more straw hit's him on the proverbial back, that the worst possible thing I can do is come in and try to talk to him. It won't work and he knows it, and frankly so do I. But I was so proud of him for not yelling or getting really mad. He's really working on that temper issue.

And then I just got a call at 1:30 am. I had forgotten to turn off the nature noises on my computer, and he had no idea he just had to close it. He was clearly very irritated, and I said I was sorry and he just had to close it. He snapped that it IS CLOSED. I had to remind him I leave it mostly closed when I have on my nature sounds to sleep, but it is not closed all the way. All he had to do was push down the top and it would stop making noise. That seemed to fix his attitude right away, but I sure hope I can get him to a doctor this week. He really needs his pain meds re-filled...