Dec 13th
I awoke feeling like I had been run over by a truck, my chest with stabbing pain, difficulty breathing....all the signs of yet another cold.
We had finally been a sick free home. For about 4 days.
My chest had been hurting for two days and I thouoght it was just from dry air or something. Now I knew. It was the begining of the flu from hell.
I dragged myself around, happy that we had already planned that I was going to take Josh to school. Id had a feeling the night before I was coming down with something and had no more ventolin ( I have asthma and when im sick it flares up) so a trip to the pharmacy was in order.
To make a long story short, the not one, but two pharmacies that I thought had a perscription did not. That meant to the walk in clinic for me. Since I had to work that night....I would need to go during the day. Hardly able to breathe. With two children.
I was so desperate I even posted on facebook for help. At first it looked hopeless. I sat on the kitchen floor and sobbed, waiting for one of my friends to text me back. S came over to me with her favourite stuffed bunny, said "whats wrong" and made bunny kiss me.
talk about heart melting?
Anyway, thankfully, aforementioned friend was having her first day off in a month ( eek!) and when she heard of my plight, came to save me. Armed with a roast beef, potatoes and veggies as well. I almost cried again. Especially since she probably would have preferred to stay in bed and eat bon bons or go to the spa and get a massage. This is one of those situations in which I was previously speaking about in my last post about feeling showered with blessings. In this case a blatantly intentional provision. Not to mention a dinner.
I'll spare you the boring parts. I got my medication, tried to get the night off, failed, and off to work I went.
Thankfully the parents were out. I did as little as possible and explained to my client that I was so sorry but I couldnt read him any stories as I was feeling horrendous. So I played music for us both, huddled underneath my coat and shivered for a while.
Then I began to have 1....and then 2 of my shaking all over episodes. I discovered that when I have them sitting up, if I completely relax, my head goes round in circles.....creepy no? I had a third shortly before leaving, this time in front of his mom. She wanted to drive me home. Kind of glad it did happen in front of her cuz I called in sick for the next day when I got home and I have no idea if they got saturday covered.
I basically slept all day saturday. I couldn't stop sleeping. I was convinced I had pneumonia, but my chest was clear ( well...i listened as best as you can when an 11 month old keeps trying to steal your stethoscope. I was feeling very puzzled. Finally the pain went away and i began to breathe a little better. Then Sophia came down with it monday morning. And Elisa. The last week of school before the holidays and Josh ended up coming home early because when he called to check up on us the girls were screaming like crazy and I was barely functional.
Then It got to him. Tuesday he woke up feeling awful. Spent all day wednesday sleeping. He is never sick like that. Oddly Sophia bounced back quickest. She had a fever for two days, slept alot the first day then was back to herself. Elisa was snotty for a few days. It really got mommy and Daddy. Ugh.
We were able to go out for dinner on Josh's birthday. If you go to Caseys you get a free meal up to 14.99. So that was fun. We couldnt really taste it but.....still.
Thankfully we were able to do christmas as planned.....well...sort of.....thats another blog in itself.
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