ben-gay and soup

Anne woke up from her nap unable to lift her right arm.

The whole house smelled like Ben-Gay.  Baba asked me for the hot water bottle - I assumed it was for himself because he had showed me his neck this morning with a grimace, but I heard a couple of minutes later Anne telling Teoman she couldn't play because her arm was hurting.

I looked in on her and Anne had a miserable look plastered on her face with an impressive grimace.

The next morning Anne didn't get up again.  Baba was up and hungry so he went into Gokhan's room to get him up to make breakfast.  It took about a half hour of Baba going back and forth from Gokhan's room encouraging him to get up.  He didn't get mad or impatient.  He just said,
"Let's go my dear boy.  I need to take my medicine."  And when Gokhan finally got up, he showered him with praise.
"My dear boy."
Gokhan came to the kitchen and started emptying the dishwasher.  When Anne's sick I am especially grateful that Gokhan is here.  He and his father help her, sympathize with her, and Gokhan takes care of things like breakfast and seeing if she's okay.

 Anne stayed in her pajamas and in bed - coming out for meals at Gokhan's order.  She told Teoman she's only eating soup because she's sick.  Gokhan and Anne discussed the source of her arm pain and concluded it was because they had left the balcony door open and the cold air had come in.

But the soup seemed to help.  After Anne's nap - she took a shower to wash off the Ben-Gay - and came out smiling, looking fresh and clean announcing she was much better showing us all that she could move her arm now - albeit not easily.

Soup - it's not just for colds.