Being Sick is for the Birds (no pun intended)!

By: Cindy Baker

On Thursday of last week I could tell Melia was coming down with something. She wouldn’t eat her pancakes (her favorite) at dinner. We were eating at her normal bedtime so I wrote it off that she was just tired and ready for bed. But, then, Friday she only picked at her chicken wings and I knew she must be getting sick. Sure enough, Friday night she woke up in the night with a slight fever and diarrhea. It continued through the day on Saturday, although things had gotten better by evening so we figured we were in the clear. Wrong. Aaron and I were up again on Saturday night with her running her to the toilet several times during the night. Poor girl. I stayed home from worship with her on Sunday morning and, thankfully, by Sunday afternoon she seemed to be over it. Whew! Done with that!

…Or so we thought! Sunday night it was my turn. Oh joy. Oh bliss. I was up all night both Sunday and Monday night. Monday day I felt HORRIBLE with a fever, diarrhea (sorry for the info) and massive headache. I was hoping Tuesday would hold better things for me. But, alas, it was not to be. At least the headache was gone. However, my plans for Kaela’s school and my Tuesday women’s Bible Study were pretty much shot (not that Kaela minded having two extra days off!). F-I-N-A-L-L-Y I started to feel much better by Tuesday late afternoon – enough to put together an easy meal and wash the dishes, but I was still feeling a bit weak from not eating much for almost two days. But, at least the worst had past and I was on the mend. Yea! Done with that.

…Oh, wait. Just kidding. Aaron’s turn! He was up and down all night Tuesday night and spent all day Wednesday in bed (and annoyed that he missed his regular Bible training study with Harry and Miswel) with the same fun stuff…fever, diahrrea, and headache. At least we knew what to expect! And banking on past experience he should be feeling much better by sometime tomorrow in the late afternoon (in which he will probably push his body and go ahead and go down to Loun Village to hold our regular Thursday evening Bible study – although, Dr. Wife doesn’t think that is necessarily so wise. Lord willing, he’ll be back to 100% on Friday (just in time for our weekly trip to town). Done with that!

…Unless, of course, Kaela follows right in line with the rest of us and comes down with this bothersome illness on Thursday night (according to the schedule), in which case that will definitely change our going to town plans. We shall see. We are praying for an end to all this sickness and a more productive week next week because we really want to say and mean “DONE WITH THAT!”