What would a holiday season be without at least one trip to the hospital, am i right? Yep! You guessed it. i was able to spend some quality time at one of our local area hospitals this weekend.
About a week and a half ago, dad came down with a respiratory infection, and i took care of him. He actually bounced back pretty quick and i was feeling a little overconfident that i wouldn’t catch it. Famous last words.
It started with coughing, and then i got the fever. It would spike, i would take meds and it would come down. But eventually, it shot up to 101.4 and after 2 days i was unable to bring it down. In fact it got as high as 102.4 before i went to the ER. Long story short – i have rsv. And the doctors said i was still contagious. So i am spending Christmas Eve and Christmas at home wearing a mask, and washing or purell-ing my hands every 10 minutes it seems!
This has also moved my chemo back one week. Yay! Blessing.
So here is where we are: My ribs are sore from coughing, and i am on self imposed voice rest. Every time i talk, i start coughing. Texting and emails are my mode of conversation. We also don’t want anyone to be infected by me, so we’re not letting anyone in the house. i have not done any cooking or baking in over a week. That’s right, no cookies. At least not for now. Dad is taking care of anything that has to do with food or talking to people.
My youngest niece Sara took a picture of us that we were going to include in the Christmas cards this year. That isn’t happening now. So we posted the picture on our facebook pages.
So if you haven’t heard from me lately, now you know why. Praying that you are all having a great Christmas! And remember that Jesus is the reason for the season.
Thanx be to God for His indescribable gift!
