Today I am grateful for the many days of my life that I have woken up healthy and completely been ungrateful for. I have been in bed for the last 4 days with a severe kidney infection. For those of you who care, my roller coaster of sickness goes something like this (For those of you who don't skip down to my summarizing paragraph):
Monday- "Yowza! My back hurts, I must have worked my back pretty hard at the gym"
Tuesday-" Hmmm, that's weird my back is still sore. 'Hunny can I have a back rub?' {to myself} Interesting rubbing my back doesn't even help. I wonder why my back is so sore?"
Wednesday- "Crap I am in a lot of stinkin pain I think I am getting a kidney infection"
Thursday- I wake up "Oh no. I can't move. I have to move. I am a mom and how can I get sick? The show must go on. I better just make it through the day"...I make it through then Dave gets home.
"I am really cold I need to take a hot shower. {45 minutes later I get out of the shower} I am still freezing I better get under a blanket (or 3)" {meanwhile Dave heads the gym the kids are down and he returns to find me with a 104 temp underneath a pile of blankets.
Dave calls in a script for me (hopefully none of you reading this will report his "unethical" prescribing of drugs to the Rx police cause he saved my life) anyway, he wakes me up gives me 4 ibuprofen & my script. My fevers breaks & I lay wet in a pile of sweat.
Friday- I wake up "I really can't get out of my bed. I better call my sister to see if she can take Austin to school" (BTW I forgot to send Austin with his project we worked on last week & he got in trouble...sorry babe). Austin gets to school via my bro-in-law and my sister heads over with Cheetos, fruit snacks, juices, eggo minis, the list could go on. Chase & Blake were in heaven. They ate more than I had ever seen and I was too sick to care. She threw dinner in the crock pot and I knew all was being taken care of so I unknowingly fell asleep. When I woke up my house was clean, the dishwasher was running, the kids were asleep for nap & everything was quiet. So I drifted off again (thank you so much Sue I love you!).
2:30 I wake up again feeling freezing..."oh no I know what this is I am going to hurry and hop in the shower again & get under the covers" Just as I thought another rapidly rising, death wishing fever. Dave came home & rescued me....our good friends came over and gave me a blessing and the rest of the day is a blur.
Saturday - A familiar morning with fever coming, breaking, & leaving me in a pile of sweat. I think "Hmmm this probably isn't a good sign if I am still running high fevers after 24 hours of antibiotics." {Dave reluctantly leaves for work & to do his surgeries for his research project}
My sister Sue & friend Becky head over in the morning to take care of the kids & in person force me to the emergency center (meanwhile other sisters & my sweet mom via phone are doing the persuading). I head over and pee in a cup. They confirm what I already knew and upped my antibiotics. The Dr. also let me know that my infection was so severe that it had begun the early stages of spreading to my blood & iI was beginning something called "sepsis". That is why the antibiotic couldn't fight it fast enough & I was still going through the fever/chills cycle after so much time.
"This can't be good right?" Feeling badly already I bend over and get a needle in my bum to get a strong antibiotic shot intramuscularly. {other pokes and prodding followed to mention them would be overkill- and don't act so surprised I am worried about overkill}.
Obviously it wasn't too sever or they wouldn't have sent me home.
The rest of the day is a little bit of a blur (although I did wake up long enough to feel guilty about handing my sharing time responsibility off to someone else).
Sunday- I can move. I am feeling much better and I haven't run a fever since yesterday.
(Shame on you for all of those who skipped to here :) )
Okay, so being sick helps remind me of the thousands of days of my life that I have woken up in tip top condition and never thought about how lucky I was to be healthy. I am thankful this infection will be short lived & it could be so much worse. I am thankful for my general good health & healthy happy kids. Too bad it takes a bout of a "stop you in your tracks" sickness to help remind me. So to all of you who woke up healthy... Be grateful too :)
Love to all!
