FLU

I haven't posted anything in awhile because life gets busy.  I have been sick for the past 12 days.  Did you catch that?  12 days.  That's almost a fortnight!  (I learned that many years ago when Andrew and I used Five in a Row).  That is a long time to not feel good.  In the mean time Paul got sick about 3 days later, he's doing better, but not completely.  Today was his first day to make an appearance at work.  Then a day or so later Daniel started this terrible, no good cough.  A few hours later Emily joined him.  The next day Allie joined the crowd.  Poor girl it had only been a few weeks since she had been so sick, that we had made two doctor visits for IV's.  

Andrew and Grandma stayed strong and Andrew was even trying to help me keep up with everyone's medicine...and then he began coughing.  We finally decided we better go to the dr.  They tested the kids for the flu and Andrew tested positive.  We thought he was maybe the lucky one because they put him on Tamiflu, but so far it hasn't helped.

Grandma finally succumbed on Saturday with a nasty cough.  She went to the dr. today and they said maybe it is bronchitis and put her on antibiotics.  

Everyone is really pathetic and did I mention it looks like Christmas in our house.  Some stuff is down, in piles, but the majority is still up.  I never thought I would say it, but I am SICK of looking at Christmas stuff.

Andrew and Allie are worrying about being behind school.  Yeah, that thing called school.  WE were suppose to start back on Jan. 7th, and we did, even though I didn't feel good.  The next day people started dropping like flies.  Allie tried yesterday to do school.  She did 3 lessons in Algebra, which promptly lead to her fever reappearing.  Never thought I would live to see the day I would have to say, "Allie, stop doing school!"

We are sick of video games, oh yeah...Andrew was trying to figure out how much energy it would require of him to stand up, walk three steps, and turn on the xbox.  He decided it was too much effort and went back to laying down.  That tells you how sick he is.  Allie did pull herself together and worked up the energy to turn it on for him, but it only lasted about 10 minutes.  We have watched so many episodes of "My Little Pony", "Full House", "Storage Wars" etc...I think we are getting sick of tv.

Daniel discovered that the shower helped his coughing and so Dad went and bought him a humidifier, which if you live here you know is kinda funny..it's only been in the 70's and like 100% humidity, anyway, Daniel looks like he is living in a fog machine.  He likes that thing pointed right in his direction!  The blessing is that he has been able to rest better.

We are praying that in the next few days people will begin to feel better and life can get back to normal...I guess we will have to see what happens.

The positives of being sick this long...you get to sleep a lot, there is no guilt for not being able to keep up with everything, I got to finish a few crafts with Emily and introduce her to the magic of Shrinky dinks.  I also got to look at things on the internet, blogs, recipes etc. that I normally don't have time for.  I was able to research a Bible curriculum for Andrew and Allie and purchase it. 

Praying we are better soon, and if any of you all are sick that you also will be better soon!