January in a nutshell!

January started off with a bang!  Mark's family goes bowling every year for the New Year.  I had to miss it because I had to take our teenager to make-up school.  The kids had fun and enjoyed being with their cousins.  I ended up with flu like symptoms on the night of January 1st.  School started for my eternal kids on the 2nd and  I wished I could have taken it easy on but two of our kids had a visit with their mom in town that day.  So I got the honor of donning a mask and wearing it around town.  My teenager had to go to make-up school on the 2nd also.  But of course they don't start at the same time.  So when I really wanted to be snuggled up in bed I was a chauffeur for 3 hours.





On the 3rd of January, my teenager called me saying his stomach hurt really bad.  I assumed he got hit with the flu.  I packed up the younger kids and went to pick him up.  When I got to his school, he looked horrible (I'm not trying to be mean...).  I handed him the 'throw-up' bucket.  He said, "My stomach doesn't hurt that way, it feels like someone is stabbing me."  Uh oh!!!  This is more than the flu.  I told him we could go to Instacare but he said he just wanted to go home.  I asked him when it started hurting and he said 2:00 AM!!!  I no longer cared that he wanted to go home, I was going to Instacare.  I called my friend to see if Tyler could get off the bus at her house since there was no way I could get home in time.  I am so grateful for her help!  What I hoped would be a quick trip to Instacare saying there was nothing to worry about, ended up being a quicker trip to the ER with a possible diagnosis of appendicitis. Sure enough, Instacare was spot on and he ended up getting his appendix out at around 7:30 pm.  I had all three girls with me, so Mark came and picked them up from the ER and took them with him to work.

Thankfully once his appendix was removed he was back to school on Monday as though nothing had happened.  He was so lucky to also get his wisdom teeth removed on the 9th of January.  Yes, one week after his appendix was removed.  He sailed through that as well and has been healthy since.

Mark on the other hand, he had a horrible cough that started sometime in December.  He finally went to the doctor the second week in January and got diagnosed with bronchitis.  The medication didn't take care of his cough, so he went back a week later, ended up getting a chest x-ray and wound up with a diagnosis of pneumonia.  He got new meds and was on the mend.  Then I got a cold which I so graciously shared with him.  Since his body was still recovering from the stress of pneumonia, he got it again and had to take a second round of medication.  Thankfully this time he didn't get another cold and the meds worked as they should.  I hope to never have another month like last month.  I am grateful for modern medication that helped us all heal. Even more so, I am grateful that I have a healthy family finally!!!