I am going to use a euphemism here because I don’t want anyone googling the real thing to land on my blog but I tried kettle bell therapy. You know the stuff that’s supposed to help you get over all of your PTSD and childhood trauma. It was a failure because I started throwing up halfway through and continued throwing up so hard I’d simultaneously pee my pants for about half an hour afterwards. Then the entire next day I felt completely ill and could barely get off the couch. But there was one shining moment where someone from the place that administered the kettle bell really shined and I want to talk about that.
Once the kettle bell wore off enough that I could stand I asked to go to the bathroom and the nurse/female attendant came with me because you can hardly walk after kettle bell. I was trying to be Covid cautious and wear a mask the whole time and when I wear my mask I always put my hair in a ponytail because I wear the good kind of N 95 masks that have two straps that go behind your head and not just your ears. Obviously someone had removed my mask from my face and it was sitting underneath my chin because they were putting a container in front of my face for the vomiting. And when I went to the bathroom I pulled the ponytail holder out of my hair and even though I could barely stand from all the dizziness, I was cold, clammy, sweating and trying to stop vomiting the attendant/nurse said to me “your hair looks fantastic“ and in that moment I just thought “This woman knows exactly what to say.” And it was entirely disconnected from everything that was happening but it made me so freaking happy because I thought I was having a good hair day before I went to the clinic and it had nothing to do with the clinic and I just walked out there with a smile on my face because this young 20 something chick said I was having a good hair day.
I am going to be more aware of sending off little unnecessary out of the blue complements into the universe from now on. It’s really such a kind thing to do and it really can turn a moment around for another person.
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