The Food That Made Me

1/31/2026

Kids, you are killing Daddy. So, I just finished showering. I wanted to clip my toenails because it is easier to cut your nails after showering. Then, the world started spinning, and I became really dizzy. Thankfully, your mommy was there and told me to sit against the wall. I just lay on the ground a few times. Nothing was helping. I was cold and naked. Then, I rushed to throw up a couple of times in the toilet and then in the garbage can.

After a couple of minutes of this, mommy took my blood pressure, and it was 160. That wasn’t good because I expected it to be much higher. My blood pressure has been in the 140s and 150s for the last few days with migraine-like headaches. Shucks. If 160 is my threshold to feel like this, then that is too easy to get there.

So, I took a blood pressure medication and headed to bed. Around 10pm, I was able to help your mommy again to burp you.

I’m not sure what the moral of the story is. I guess I wonder how much of my parent’s health had deteriorated because of having to take care of me.