Longest Weeked of My Life

I figured after a couple of days of being sick I would be getting better. Well by Friday I woke up for the third morning with fever and not feeling any better. All the kids were definitely better and going full speed. As for me I was going slower than a snails pace. Well actually I think the snail past me six times. I finally had to ask for help from Saul. After school he took the kids to Stephenville for a bite to eat and some ice cream to give me a little time to rest. He brought me back some dinner that night and I took 2 bites and wasn't able to keep it down. But don't tell him that because he made sure he got me exactly what I wanted.

Saturday morning I woke up with 104 degree fever and was really scared. I had never had fever this high and and never felt this sick. Time seem to go by sooooooooooo sssslllllooowww. Levi had a football game that morning and of course Saul is his coach so he had to leave me. He took Zion with him and left Avva. Avva was so good. She laid next to me and and just patted me and said "I'm sorry Mama you don't feel good. I hope you get better."

I tried almost everything I knew to try to get my fever down. After 4 1/2 hours I was thinking that I probably need to go to the hospital. I decided to try one last thing I had seen on tv. I made (yes me..not sure how I did...don't remember doing it)about 10 sandwich bags with ice in them and put them all over my body. After about 30 minutes my fever had dropped to 102 and then finally after another hour it finally broke. I have never sweat that much in my life. I realized that it has been 7 hours since I had gotten up that morning and thought it had only been 2 hours. It is scary to lose time like that. I tried eating some crackers. but my stomach rejected them.

I woke up on Sunday morning with fever again and thinking when will this nightmare ever end. I stumbled out of bed and had to get the kids up. I told Saul that he was going to have to bathe Avva because he didn't do it the night before like I always do. So he got up without grumbling and bathed her. Even though I was feeling nauseated I got Avva dressed and hair done. I immediately went back to bed. As the day went on I saw a little bit of improvement. A little. I hadn't kept any food done in almost 2 1/2 days and I really wasn't even hungry. That was just so strange to me. Not really the way I wanted to lose weight.

Finally it is now Monday morning and I am beginning to feel some better. I haven't had fever in 14 hours and I kept down a piece of toast. I think that I do see a little light at the end of the tunnel.

Three out of the five of us are sick

Well I can definitely tell Fall is here. We are sick. We seem to always get sick in October.

Yesterday Avva woke up about 2 AM throwing up. I got up and cleaned her up and put the really icky blanket and sheets in the washer. Found a small bathroom trash can for her to have in case she threw up again. And yes you guessed it she did again and again. Thankfully it was in the trash can and not the clean blanket and pillow case I got her. I made her a pallet on the floor in the living room and I laid on the couch not able to go back to sleep because I was afraid she would throw up again. Well then 6:30 Am rolled around and it was time to wake up the boys for school. I called for them to get up and Levi got up, but Zion sat up and threw up all over the bed. I was thinking not today not another one. I cleaned him up and then got Levi ready and realized I was a little dizzy and achy. I took my temperature and I had 102 fever. I told Zion he was going to have to stay home and he cried. He said, but I won't be able to see my teacher today and I am not going to have perfect attendance this time. I told him it was ok to be sick sometimes and miss school. I woke up Saul and asked if he could take Levi to school and he did without moaning or groaning. I just couldn't leave the kids and I really didn't need to be out in the cold air. As the day progressed there was less and less throwing up. As for myself I seemed to get worse, but tried to stay strong for the kids. When your a mother and sick you sometimes just have to push on and take care of your normal duties whether you feel like it or not.

This morning Zion and Avva woke up feeling great, but as for me not so lucky. I got Levi and Zion ready for school and took them even tho I probably needed to stay in bed.

I am hoping our week will get better.

Sorry I don't have any pictures this time to post.

Several of y'all have suggest that I make a blog for my family. So here it goes.

Levi and Zion have really enjoyed going to public school this year. They really have great teachers. For the first 6 weeks Zion got citizen of the first 6 weeks. Levi and Zion both got perfect attendance and the A honor roll. I was so proud of them. This assured me that our decision to put them in public school was the right decision.

Last week Saul had an emergency appendectomy. He is recovering really well. It seems like if its not me sick or having a surgery then it is Saul sick or having surgery. It is definitely not dull around our house.

Levi is playing flag football and Saul and Jordan are his coaches. He really is enjoying that. His team is the Panthers and they actually got their first touchdown this weekend. They were very happy. Football isn't really my thing, but I can endure it for my son.

I guess this is all for now and I will hopefully soon post some more. It may take me a little while to fully get into this and actually say something interesting and to figure out how this all works.