Thread: Braggin' Time

I'm not sure if i've ever done anything special to be proud of, but this comes to mind:

Years ago my wife got a serious disease into her stomach and intestine and i had to take her to the ER. From there she got into hospital. Doctors couldn't find a reason for her sickness for several weeks, and she got worst and worst. She stayed there for almost three months.
Our kids were little at those times, my daughter was about 4 and my son had just learned to walk without help. I was in the army; my mother-in-law watched after kids when i was at work and i stayed them for the rest of the time. Luckily i got arranged so that i had to be on service only daytimes.
At some moment the condition of the lady went critical, and i couldn't take kids to watch their mother as she didn't recognise them or me, or couldn't even tell if she was in earth or Mars. Doctors told me that it might be possible that she isn't gonna make it. Kids were very nervous for not seeing her for weeks, and to calm them and cheer them i had to lie that she's ok. I felt all this what was happening very difficult and stressing, but i couldn't show kids how worried i was. I just had to try to keep their lives as normal as possible and to find them something to be happy.
Luckily she got ok, and when she got home, looking like a skeleton after losing so much weight, her first reaction was to shout at me because the house wasn't so clean and kids had told her about my cookings (i'm not known to be a famous for my cooking skills).
On that moment i was thinking by myself that yes there might be some hair of our dogs on our floor, and yes the kids have maybe eaten too much french fries and not enough vegetables lately, and if this is all she has to complain, then maybe i've made this all so fine.
Of course i knew that it was only her psychologic reaction to all this that had happened, she had to let out her feelings of anger, fear and frustration, and i was of course the only person she could show these feelings. I was happy for her, happy for myself and so happy for the kids. I thought that i do not care if she shouted my ears eyes full every day for the rest of my life as long as she is healthy. I think that was a moment i felt proud of myself.