I Prayed For Rest

You'd think I would know better by now. I was a little tired so I vaguely remember praying for a good night's sleep. Yup, you guessed it. We got sick! First I think it was my throat hurting. Then Ayvan kept coughing all night. This led (3-4 day later) to running some WAY too high temps (Ayvan's got to 104 under her arm!) and a lot of worshiping the porcelain throne by both of us - so we finally went to see the doctor. OH - and did we do this during the day like a normal family might, no, we waited til around 6:30pm to go. Our doc's office closed at 7pm so we were blessed and they were wonderful! They took blood from both of us and Ayvan never even flinched! They were a little worried about Ayvan not getting enough fluids too.

We both have "something" bacterial is all they could come up with but sent throat cultures out for growth. Of course by time they grow, we should be fine. Then we had to go wait at Walgreens for prescriptions - we also bought soup, Pedialite, Gatorade, several other meds they told us to get and a special book for Ayvan. I'm sure I looked like a first time mother at the check out!

We've spent the past few days in mine and Jason's "quarantined" bedroom mostly sleeping in between meds. Fun fun! Ayvan had one more rough night after the doctor visit where her temp went way up again. The next day she stayed in the "much better" range on the thermometer and Mommy got the best nap of her life!

NOW, the topper! Jason had his Paramedic release test the day AFTER we went to the doctor! He was so worried the day before and the day of his test that he had no time to worry about himself and he PASSED of course!! God does work in obvious ways if you're paying attention! His mom was able to help us out on test day so we were in good hands. Not to mention how awesome my children are! The kept popping their little heads in and asking what we needed. Jason barely let them in to hug me each day in fear that we would all get sick! I missed their little hugs so much!

I'm on the computer again! yea! I'm sure this is a very boring and lengthy blog (who came up with that ugly word "blog" - it's like "blahhhhhhg" ya know?) but I really wanted to let you all that know that we've just been blessed with rest. So, be careful what you pray for!