The sickies strike again!

Bah!  Everytime I think we might be ahead of this, we all get sick again.  This time, nearly the whole church is fighting off the various forms of the flu.  I started feeling poorly on Thursday and just got progressively worse.  It started as a tickle in my throat and a chesty cough.  Friday night I gave up and realized that I was seriously ill.  I spent all day Saturday and Sunday in bed.  I NEVER stay in bed all day.  Every time I got up, the room was spinning and it was all I could do to get right back into bed.  The chest cough is one of the worst I've ever had and my throat is still raw.  I struggled with a fever of 104ish for over 24 hours.  It finally broke sometime last night and I am beginning to feel human again.

Noah started feeling poorly on Saturday afternoon.  It started as a simple cough and sniffle.  I thought he was going to end up the same as me.  He was bored watching TV in my room and decided to go lay in his own bed and play quietly.  He wasn't gone for 15 minutes when he came back through my bedroom door barfing.  Uhm... yuck!  His bathroom was definitely closer, but he wanted comfort.  Pappy (God bless him!) came over and cleaned up Noah's bed and my bathroom while we got Noah situated.  He's still down with the fever and upset stomach.  There seriously isn't anything left in the poor little man's tummy.  I'm praying that the fever breaks this evening and he gets some good rest so that he feels better tomorrow.

Josiah has been cranky and unsettled all day.  I can only pray that this is as bad as he gets.  Jason said that he's feeling a little funny this afternoon too.  That just leaves the girls (in our house) and I really can't fathom anyone else being sick right now.  Of course, mom went home a little bit ago.  I think she too has succumbed to this sickness.  Pappy?!?  Well... he hasn't said one way or the other if he's got this for sure or not... but then again... he is usually too stubborn to tell anyone when he's sick or let it disrupt much of his daily life.

So, if you were expecting to hear from me recently or soon... please know that it may be a couple more days or so.  I didn't look at my computer nearly all weekend and didn't respond to anything.  I'm still not responding to anything yet.  I don't want to make commitments that I just can't keep yet.

Praise the Lord... I just cannot wait until His triumphant return and pray even more fervently that it is soon.  No more pain, sickness, fear, death... that will truly be Heaven!