The good Lord above graciously gave me Christmas day before dropping what we now believe to be H1N1 in my stocking later that night. I was really ticked too because instead of bringing me "Edward Cullen" in my stocking, I got this garb. What - is - up - with - that???
All of you poor people who have experienced H1N1 already, you'll know what I mean when I say that my body aches all over - all the way down to my teeth. I have been in bed since Friday late afternoon with no end in sight. My fevers have ranged anywhere from 103 to 101. There is no rhyme or reason to the ups and downs. Kenidi...yeap...she is now pushing a week of fevers too. Hers is now running in the low 99's but unfortunately it is still lingering. We are soooooooooo over this. Kenidi has been back to the doctor for a 2nd time already. If her fever doesn't break and stay gone for good, we are going to have to take her back again. It's a mess over here. We. are. at. war.
War with this nasty bug that has no mercy on anyone. No remorse. No guilt. Just all out war with guns blazing. I've never experienced anything like it in my life. Never. Brent is now complaining of a scratchy throat and sluggish feelings. I think I heard him mention something about wanting to go to bed by 6pm tonight. This might be his pay backs though for looking at me as I laid in bed the other night looking like death warmed over and then muttering the words..."Ang, it's mind over matter babe." Yeah...needless to say...I told him where he could stick his "mind over matter theory" and let him know that I'd remind him of it when he was laying on his death bed here in a couple of days with the same thing Kenidi and I have. This is what happens when you are married to a man who treats daily life events like a business. As though an entrepreneur would when they embark on a new uphill battle. Just mind over matter babe. Just mind over matter. Yeah...whatEVAH!
All of this comes in the wake of me making a huge mistake by helping my mom set up a facebook account. I am ill as ill gets and have to stumble upon her page yesterday and today where she is proceeding to steal photos from me and add them to her page. "Unapproved" photos at that. Yeah...you know the kind. The kind we disown our friends for taking and then tagging us. Yup...that kind. I don't mind her posting pictures on her page of me but she best let me approve them first. I had to go in and delete the photo off her page twice now. I warned her that if I had to do it a third time that I was going to take "my computer" out of the Bonita house where she is staying and thus she will no longer have access to the Internet there period. LOL! See...she is using one of our old computers that has old pictures on it from things I've uploaded. Now she has some bidding war attempt going on over on facebook for those feeling the need to see the "said photographs." YAY! Even my new neighbor friend is in on it. (Hi Lorrie!) Ha ha! What a joy as I'm struggling to even muster the strength to walk to my shower let alone have to watch facebook like a hawk because my Mom is on there having a hay day with my wretched images. BLAH!
In the end, I'm just asking for prayers. Prayers to help us overcome this nasty ordeal and prayers that Brennen won't end up with it now too. So far he is still trucking along. I can't bare the thought of him having to endure this as well. I'm also just praying that Kenidi can kick this and be done with it. The fever especially due to her epilepsy. Fevers bring on seizures. We can't have any extra of those. Just can't!
In the meantime, I'm jealous of the sunshine and beautiful swaying palm trees that I can see out my bedroom windows/door. It all makes me even more sick to know I'm missing all of that outdoor beauty. Not only that but it is the kids Christmas break. They are off school and we've been cooped up since last Monday basically. So not fun. Again, please just send a few prayers our way, will ya? I hope to be back to our regular scheduled programming very soon. Figured I'd better post an update though just to let ya'll know we are breathing. :) I was beginning to get emails from some of you asking where we went. Sorry. We are still here. I promise. Hope all of you had a spectacular Christmas.
It struck & struck hard. Hard and fast. One minute she was fine. The next minute she couldn't breathe well and had a 103.4 fever. After a trip to the doctor yesterday, a nasal test, and blood work to confirm her white blood cell count was low, she is now being treated for H1N1.
Poor little Kenidi. She always gets the shotty end of the deal. Her immune system just doesn't handle as it should. She is the first to get everything in our family. This thing has kicked her butt (and mine). Last night was rough but we survived. She qualified for the Tamiflu because of her having epilepsy. However, she vomitted upon taking it for the first time right off the bat. I had been warned by the doctor that Tamiflu can cause vomiting. They were right on! Many of you facebook friends confirmed that on my page as well. After setting my alarm for every four hours last night in order to rotate the Tylenol with the motrin, her fever finally broke at around 4am. She was sweating profusely and ended up being in a pool of water - her own sweat - by the time all was said and done. It broke my heart. Although I have a ton of stuff to do, including our Christmas shopping, I stayed in today with her in my lap or laying in my right arm all day today. She has been very clingy and I can't say that I blame her. She'll look at me, ask for juice, then pull on my shirt collar, physically pulling me onto the bed and say, "seep...!" (that means "sleep" in Kenidi's language) It is her best way of instructing me to lay down and just relax with her. Although her fever is at bay, her cough sounds ferocious. We are hoping that she'll have her pep back in her step by Christmas.
For now, I'm off to get ready to head out for a few hours so that I can attempt to wrap up the Christmas shopping which I have yet to begin. Nothing like waiting until the last minute this year. This is a new approach for me. Ask me later how well it worked. LOL! Happy Wednesday.
