As a wave of nausea sweeps through the house, prepare to experience a range of emotions. First comes denial, then anger, bargaining, depression and, finally, acceptance.
A few weeks ago, I was in the midst of a text exchange with my wife, covering the kind of inane issues that make up the daily domestic agenda.Before we could discuss whether a new episode of our show had dropped, my wife steered the conversation in a terrifying direction: “I feel a bit funny in the tummy, do you?”
There was little to laugh about later that evening when my wife’s “funny in the tummy” graduated to full-blown gastro. At the best of times, toddlers act like obnoxious drunks – cranky, unpredictable, swaying – but add a stomach bug into the mix, and he was more like a career alcoholic. Menacingly silent and vomiting violently.
With the benefit of hindsight, I now know I was deep in denial, which also happens to be the first step in the five stages of grief described by the famed Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
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