I feel like I have been underwater for the last three weeks and am only just now surfacing. Even so, I have not made shore yet. I am still floating in the post storm waves and I would be sunk without my lifejacket (drugs). Still, I can at least catch my breath; I can at least see land from here….
It has been one flu and cold flurry after another since December, and it finally took both Jen and I down. She was bed-ridden sick a couple of weeks ago, leaving me to take up the slack, and has been slowly clawing her way back to health since then. I kept myself from going under too far for the first two weeks, keeping my cold in the moderate zone and my sinus infection treated with antibiotics.
However this last week, after a day of feeling I was out of the woods, I spiked a fever and pretty much went down for the whole week. I limped my way through some work but also took a chunk of time off while Rachel and Christina picked up the loose ends. With their help I was able to stay at home a lot, drinking fluids, reading, and resting. When I was at work I mostly just sat on the couch looking pathetic, with kids piling up on me, and me weakly trying to keep them from sliding off or clonking heads. I was like a big anemic pillow with noodle arms. They didn’t seem to mind.
Of course it was a church newsletter week. I didn’t get the snail mail version out in time (it actually is still not done as I write this), but I did get the email one out. I worked on the damn thing in moments of relative ease and clarity when the drugs were all working at their peak. And then I would take a nap.
Once, when I had a moment of energy at work and I actually picked up the kitchen and then sat down exhausted and discouraged, Jen told me that we are not the kind of people who take well to doing nothing for a whole week. She is right. Especially when doing nothing doesn't seem to help you heal any faster!
The weather has been keeping step with us. It has been cold and dreary and dank and rainy and windy and chilly. There have been bits of sunshine but we have been mostly too sick to take much notice.
And yet I know the rain won’t go on forever. Eventually the clouds will clear and the sun will shine again. Thank goddess for change!
It has been one flu and cold flurry after another since December, and it finally took both Jen and I down. She was bed-ridden sick a couple of weeks ago, leaving me to take up the slack, and has been slowly clawing her way back to health since then. I kept myself from going under too far for the first two weeks, keeping my cold in the moderate zone and my sinus infection treated with antibiotics.
However this last week, after a day of feeling I was out of the woods, I spiked a fever and pretty much went down for the whole week. I limped my way through some work but also took a chunk of time off while Rachel and Christina picked up the loose ends. With their help I was able to stay at home a lot, drinking fluids, reading, and resting. When I was at work I mostly just sat on the couch looking pathetic, with kids piling up on me, and me weakly trying to keep them from sliding off or clonking heads. I was like a big anemic pillow with noodle arms. They didn’t seem to mind.
Of course it was a church newsletter week. I didn’t get the snail mail version out in time (it actually is still not done as I write this), but I did get the email one out. I worked on the damn thing in moments of relative ease and clarity when the drugs were all working at their peak. And then I would take a nap.
Once, when I had a moment of energy at work and I actually picked up the kitchen and then sat down exhausted and discouraged, Jen told me that we are not the kind of people who take well to doing nothing for a whole week. She is right. Especially when doing nothing doesn't seem to help you heal any faster!
The weather has been keeping step with us. It has been cold and dreary and dank and rainy and windy and chilly. There have been bits of sunshine but we have been mostly too sick to take much notice.
And yet I know the rain won’t go on forever. Eventually the clouds will clear and the sun will shine again. Thank goddess for change!
