When I wrote last that we were on the mend from our sickness, apparently I was wrong! I had felt sick on Saturday, but in retrospect those symptoms were from exhaustion of caring for sickies all week and not sleeping at all for two nights straight (because of Mary being ill). Then I "recovered" and thought I had a mighty strong immune system! The (likely) flu really hit me (like a freight train) on Sunday night minutes before Chris left on a business trip and about 10 hours before my stepfather would be arriving from California! What a perfect storm! That was one scary night, being totally crippled by flu and caring for two little ones by myself. I was grateful to God that it hit me at night so the children were asleep most of the time, as opposed to my getting sick during the daytime. As it was, the sickness kept me awake all night, making three nights in a row without any sleep!
Praise God, now I really am on the mend. We all have the lingering cough that I hear lasts for weeks. The children have been totally knocked out by this illness. In the six days since John's fever ended and four days since Mary's ended, each child has taken four-hour naps daily, slept about twelve hours overnight, and has been begging to go to sleep for the night by 6:30 or 7:00 p.m.!
Katherine, that sounds really terrible. It is a blessing you were ill at night... it is so hard. I'm glad you are on the mend now. It sounds like a really rough one!
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