Oh it feels so good to have life back to normal! For those of you who didn't know, I was sick for pretty much the whole month of December give or take a few good days. It started out with some kind of a flu, then I got better for a while and then I got strep throat...oh yuck. After that I thought I was done and had my share of sickness for a season. Then the Sunday before Christmas I started getting flu-like symptons again and then it turned into a terrible migraine for a couple of days, I seriously thought I was going to die. By Wednesday I couldn't handle it any more, so Justin took me to the ER..ugh..the ER, I hate the ER. They asked tons of questions and with my history of headaches they diagnosed it as a migraine and gave me an IV and pumped me full of fluids and some different medicines. One of them was the weirdest thing I have ever had, it made me so agitated and restless and all I could think of was Levi at home trying to take a bottle and probably not doing so well. Oh, I was dying! Luckily after a while my body calmed down and Justin talked to Alisa and the boys were doing well. Okay, I could calm down and we could go home pretty soon. I had been so cold and shaking a lot, so Justin piled lots of blankets on me, it felt so good. Until the doctor looked at me and said I look really hot, so they took my temperature and I had a fever. Now the doctor was worried about meningitis, so I got to do a spinal tap. Justin does not do well with needles and blood and such, so the doctor made him go in the waiting room so that he didn't have another patient. I did pretty well with it and I think I now know what it would be like to have an epidural! Well, I didn't have meningitis, but I did get a side effect from the tap...a headache. Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose?
I finally got to go home and spend Christmas on the couch. The hardest thing about this, was that I couldn't give my family the Christmas they deserved. I know they still had a good time, but it was so hard to just lay there and watch and not be totally involved and not be able to make a yummy breakfast or play with the new toys. I was devistated that I missed my family's Christmas Eve dinner, the first time in 25 years! I was so sad that I couldn't enjoy when Justin's family came over on Christmas. I was depressed. But, then I remembered what Christmas is about...our Savior. I was given so much comfort by knowing that my Savior really knew just what I was going through, he has suffered this and much, much more. I was going to be just fine!
After one more week of this sickness, I am feeling like a brand new person. It is amazing how sickness can make you have a whole new outlook on life. I want to be better, I want to enjoy each day that I have!!
Thank you to all of my family who was there for me, those of you who gave me a call, or left me a loving message, and prayed for me, it means more to me than you will ever know. I have the best family in the whole world!!! I love you all and hope to see you soon! But the most wonderful person through this whole thing has been Justin. He took such great care of me and the boys, he never complained even though he was exhausted! He would wake up in the middle of the night to feed Levi, feed the two older boys, play with the boys, bring me my medicine, made sure that I drank plenty of water, he missed several days of work without pay, and he was just there for me...you are the best, Justin! I love you so much!!!
Now, I'm back and better than ever....by the way HAPPY NEW YEAR..2009!!!
