Overworked and underpaid
I'm so tired. There has been at least one sick person in this house since December 20th. It started with Mason right before Christmas. Pertussis. Blah, such a bummer. The bigs had already had it and it was baaad. I knew exactly what the pertussis cough sounded like. Luckily I had called my homeopath a few months earlier, and stockpiled the remedies for pertussis, just in case. Mason bounced back really quick, he was only sick about 2 weeks.
Then Bryce started coughing, he coughed 3 weeks before it was diagnosed as a gnarly sinus infection. Meanwhile, Blake started coughing too, but his cough took a different turn. He spiked fevers of 103 and was pale and lethargic. Pneumonia. Ugh. 3 weeks, 2 different types of antibiotics, bloodwork, 2 sets of chest x-rays, 5 doctors visits. He was so sick. Slowly slowly he started feeling better. After 4 weeks of being sick the dr said to get him out and moving so went on a quick trip to the beach. There he had a episode of cold water urticaria. He went into anaphylactic shock, and swelling of the hands and feet.
Then last week I got sick. Thankfully the fever and nasty cough didn't last long, moms don't have time to be sick you know! It's a good thing I bounced back fast, because this weekend Marlie spiked a high fever and developed the nasty cough, oh and so did JP. But you know who feels great? The 3 year old of course!! Arg!
So I'm feeling a bit overworked. Everyone is sick, no one has energy to help do much of anything around here but me, and the messy 3 year old. That means lots of extra work for mom. It's times like these that I just have to turn on my favorite Phil Wickham Pandora Station and keep moving. If I sit for long and think about how grumpy I am that all I have done is care for sick people, I'm not a nice lady! But God knows my weaknesses, and he knows my frustrations.
Then Bryce started coughing, he coughed 3 weeks before it was diagnosed as a gnarly sinus infection. Meanwhile, Blake started coughing too, but his cough took a different turn. He spiked fevers of 103 and was pale and lethargic. Pneumonia. Ugh. 3 weeks, 2 different types of antibiotics, bloodwork, 2 sets of chest x-rays, 5 doctors visits. He was so sick. Slowly slowly he started feeling better. After 4 weeks of being sick the dr said to get him out and moving so went on a quick trip to the beach. There he had a episode of cold water urticaria. He went into anaphylactic shock, and swelling of the hands and feet.
Then last week I got sick. Thankfully the fever and nasty cough didn't last long, moms don't have time to be sick you know! It's a good thing I bounced back fast, because this weekend Marlie spiked a high fever and developed the nasty cough, oh and so did JP. But you know who feels great? The 3 year old of course!! Arg!
So I'm feeling a bit overworked. Everyone is sick, no one has energy to help do much of anything around here but me, and the messy 3 year old. That means lots of extra work for mom. It's times like these that I just have to turn on my favorite Phil Wickham Pandora Station and keep moving. If I sit for long and think about how grumpy I am that all I have done is care for sick people, I'm not a nice lady! But God knows my weaknesses, and he knows my frustrations.
| Isa 40:29 | He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. |
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