{"id":1979,"date":"2018-04-23T07:39:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2018-04-23T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T18:22:33","slug":"self-care-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/self-care-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Care Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SelfCareDayPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1980 size-large\" title=\"Self Care Day\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SelfCareDayPost-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops a child sleeping in a slipper-shaped bed to visualize away her back pain.\" width=\"625\" height=\"937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SelfCareDayPost-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SelfCareDayPost-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SelfCareDayPost-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SelfCareDayPost-624x936.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SelfCareDayPost.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>When the pain in my back got so bad that I couldn\u2019t sleep left-side or right, or even belly-up, I went shuffling to my doctor\u2019s where the nurse weighed me, took my blood pressure, asked where it hurt, and finally looked at me, cocking her head, and said, \u201cHave you been depressed lately?\u201d At which point I broke down into a drippy, wailing mess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Without going into the whole story of my daughter\u2019s dying seven years ago, I wanted to let the nurse know I felt entitled to some depression. But the question left me speechless. I stood there shaking and sobbing, looking anywhere but at her eyes, wondering if I had liver cancer, and wishing I could just curl up to sleep. Hanging on the wall was a children\u2019s book illustration of a sleeping family. They were floating in the sky, each member cozily cocooned in their own fuzzy, quilted slipper-shaped bed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I returned home with comfort food from Wegmans, Aleve, and a prescription for physical therapy sessions, and spent the next several hours visualizing my pain away in Photoshop. I\u2019m calling it a Self Care Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>What do you do to take care of yourself?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the pain in my back got so bad that I couldn&rsquo;t sleep left-side or right, or even belly-up, I went shuffling to my doctor&rsquo;s where the nurse weighed me, took my blood pressure, asked where it hurt, and finally looked at me, cocking her head, and said, &ldquo;Have you been depressed lately?&rdquo; At which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1432],"tags":[1538,1541,1540,207,1539,511,1251,1542,659],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1432","tag-back-pain","tag-childrens-book-illustration","tag-comfort-food","tag-daughter-died","tag-depressed","tag-photo-shopping","tag-self-care","tag-self-care-day","tag-taking-care-of-yourself"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}