Friday: After I picked Seth up from school, we went over to pick up Jared from work. We got milkshakes at Chick fil a to celebrate that it was the last day of school. We also went to Walmart so Jared could get a card for Frank and we did a few other errands. After we got home, I made a pan of brownies because I had volunteered to help provide brownies for all the men in the ward for Father's Day. Jared had to go to work that evening and Frank was working at one of his client's place of business a lot of the day. I dropped Jared off at work so that I could have the car to go to a baby shower for one of my friends. The baby shower was fun. Frank called me while I was still there to let me know he was almost home, so I had him stop at Jared's work and I met him there so that we could leave the car there for Jared (he was getting off work pretty late) and then we came home together.
Saturday: Very busy day. Frank took Seth to swimming so that I could participate in a service project that our ward was doing. For the service project, we had joined forces with a couple of other local churches to clean up a lower income neighborhood. Besides picking up trash, weeding, and mulching, the bishop's storehouse had also donated several boxes of canned goods to distribute to people who needed it. Those will be distributed this weekend, but part of what we did last weekend was we sorted all the food into bags so they will be ready for the distribution. We got all of that done and then we did weeding and mulching in a playground area. I didn't stay for the entire project, which included lunch, because I had the self reliance group at noon. Here's a few pictures I took at the service project:
When we got to self reliance group, we decided to only go through one chapter instead of five, because one member of our group couldn't come and Frank had to leave early because he had to go back to help one of his clients some more. So with the usual reporting and going through a foundational principle of self reliance, we were there for a little less than two hours. The plan is to have another long session tomorrow to go through the remaining 4 chapters, although the same member of our group can't come again so maybe that will change. I guess we'll see. Since I ended up having more free time than I anticipated, I worked some more on Cub Scout records, cleaned the kitchen floor, and in the evening after it cooled down a bit I mowed the lawn. Frank finished the work he needed to do for his client. Meanwhile, Jared went to a YSA activity with Jessie and he was gone all afternoon and evening.
Sunday: We gave Frank some cards for Father's Day and he got promises for a couple of things for his office in the future. One of those things is we are creating a sign for his office door with his business name on it (PB Networking). We want to create a logo and we ran out of time to get it done in time for Father's Day. I helped with a Primary class the last hour of church so that the male teachers could go to priesthood meeting, where they also gave them the brownies and other treats. We hurried home from church because Frank's sister, Dawn, and her husband (Mike) were coming over for dinner. Mike's dad lives in Delaware and they have been here visiting, so they drove over for the evening to see us. We had a nice visit with them and I think it helped me to not feel too sad about missing my dad. On Sunday I realized that I really wasn't feeling too well. My throat and head both hurt a bit and I noticed I was coughing a little. My neck and shoulders felt achy too. I had too much to do, though, so I mostly ignored how I felt.
The rest of the week:
By Monday, I couldn't ignore not feeling well anymore. I woke up with a full blown sore throat, head ache, fever, and body aches. What, again???!! Didn't I just do that 2 weeks ago? This nasty cold has been a lot like the last one--only worse. I have spent a good portion of the week lying in bed thinking about all the things I ought to be doing, but not feeling well enough to do them. Ugh!! It's been the worst. I haven't exercised at all this week, or practiced the ukulele; I've barely done any of the basic household chores and none of the cooking. (Frank has had to do all of that, with some help from Jared and Seth.) I had to skip out on den meetings (the other den leader had her husband come help), I missed my religion class as well as a Relief Society activity last night, and the temple trip Frank and I planned for today had to be cancelled (again!) too. At this point, I am just hoping that I will be well enough (and not still contagious) so that I can go to church on Sunday. (Even if I weren't sick, the temple trip would have had to be postponed anyway for two other reasons...more on that later.)
Frank convinced me on Tuesday to go to the doctor--we wanted to rule out strep throat, since I had a really sore throat and a fever (although the fever wasn't too bad and went away after the first couple of days). Since Seth had been coughing quite a bit for a few days and when questioned he acknowledged that he had a sore throat too, we decided to have him go to the doctor too. Our doctor thought we both probably had a virus, but since my throat looked worse than Seth's he decided to do a strep test on me just to make sure. The test came back negative, but I don't regret going to the doctor because if I hadn't I would have spent this whole week wondering if I should have gone. At least when I was feeling rotten all week I knew that an antibiotic wouldn't have helped.
On Wednesday, I woke up with my left eye red and goopy. By late afternoon, I realized that my right eye was also starting to bother me and by evening it was red and goopy too. By Thursday morning, my left eye had improved quite a bit but my right eye was a lot worse. It got very swollen, in addition to the redness and discharge. The swelling seems to have gone down now but both eyes are still red and there's still discharge although it's diminished. I don't think I will be wearing contact lenses anytime soon. (I did some reading online about "pink eye" and I have all the earmarks of the viral form of pink eye, which also can't be treated. You just have to wait it out, and it can take weeks.) Meanwhile, I have once again become very congested, I'm still coughing, and just in general I'm very tired and feel a lot better if I am horizontal instead of vertical. At least my throat doesn't hurt as much as it did at first. I didn't sleep well at all on Tuesday night but the other nights I've managed to get a fairly decent amount of sleep. So what did I do all week? Not much! You'd think I would have got a lot of reading done or something but I've felt very restless and it's been hard for me to focus on one thing for more than an hour or so. I did do some reading, though, and I'm over half way through The Phantom of the Opera, which is the book we are reading for book chat. I read my scriptures every day and I played a few games online. I somehow ended up watching youtube videos about BYU football, which led to videos about "college football miracle finishes", which were actually really good. But overall, I felt bored and unproductive and guilty that Frank was having to do all the work around here. I did take a shower every day, which I consider an accomplishment!
Frank and Jared gave me a blessing on Wednesday night and that felt great. I cried quietly through most of it because I felt so loved, and such a connection to Heavenly Father. But for whatever reason, it hasn't been His will that I be healed quickly. I guess there is something else I need to learn from this experience. One thing I have been reminded of is that I am very, very fortunate that usually I am so healthy! It is so rare that I get sick, and even more rare for me to be sick for an extended period of time. I take good health for granted most of the time. This is reminding me that I should be grateful for every day that I feel well and am able to do everything that I need to do (even if I don't enjoy some of those things, like cleaning bathrooms!)
Okay, so enough about me! Frank spent the week taking care of me, doing all the shopping, cooking and a lot of household chores (as already mentioned), job hunting, and doing work for clients. I feel like he has had a lot of work to do for clients, which is good of course. He ended up having to drive down to do some on site work for one of his clients again today (one of the other reasons we couldn't go to the temple). The place that he had the phone interview with last week contacted him again to schedule an in-person interview, which for some reason they want to do on a Saturday (not tomorrow, next Saturday). Anyway, it's good that they are interested enough to do another interview. Other than that, he has continued to apply for jobs but hasn't seen a lot of progress yet and I think he's discouraged about that. So keep praying for him! On Wednesday evening when Jared had my car it started overheating so on Thursday Frank took a look at it. He thought maybe there was a small leak somewhere but after adding some anti freeze and driving around a bit he realized that it was leaking a LOT of antifreeze so he decided we'd better get it into the shop. It turns out that there is a large hole in the radiator, which means the radiator needs to be replaced. It's not going to be cheap. Also, apparently no one stocks the radiator my car needs so they had to order one and it won't be in until tomorrow or Monday. So we are a one car family until then. (And that is the third reason that we couldn't go to the temple today, since Jared had to work and going to the temple right now is at least an 8 hour trip, assuming there are no traffic problems.)
Jared has not had to work in the evenings this week because the Frederick Keys have away games. Besides that, Jessie and her family went to the beach Tuesday morning and won't be back until next week, so we have seen a lot more of Jared this week! He worked his usual shift at Chick fil a on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and today. He didn't work yesterday because someone else really needed to have Saturday off, so Jared agreed to switch shifts with him. So he will be working tomorrow too. Jared applied to transfer to BYU and on Saturday night he found out that he has been accepted!! Wow! We are very happy for him, and life is going to be quite a bit easier for us to have both he and Tanner at the same school. Yesterday he registered for classes and found a place to live. Places to live are pretty slim pickings at this point, but he found openings at the Glenwood, which is where Frank lived the semester before we got married. Hopefully it is a decent place and hasn't gotten a lot worse since Frank lived there (I do know they have renovated it since then, at least, which is good since Frank lived there 26 years ago. I can't believe it's been that long!) On Monday evening Jared went to YSA family night, which included swimming, but other than that he has been home in the evenings. I like Jared and I have enjoyed talking to him more! :)
Seth has continued to cough, mostly in the mornings, but otherwise he seems to feel fine. He went to the carpool boys' house to play on Monday for several hours and he went to Renata's house to play with her son Samuel on Wednesday for a few hours. He also went to 11 year old scouts on Wednesday night (Jared took him; that's when the car started having problems). Yesterday we had Samuel over to play for most of the day. Renata had to to work, and she had asked me last week if Samuel could come here for the day. Of course, I didn't know when I agreed that I would be sick, but since I had Jared and Frank both here to help me and she didn't mind him being here while I am sick (I kept away from him!!), we had him over anyway. He was no trouble at all, and he and Seth played nicely all day with Legos and video games. Since I've been sick all week and Frank has been busy looking for a job, doing work for clients, and doing most of the work I usually do, Seth pretty much got to rot his brains on TV and video games all week. I guess one week won't kill him!!
I was feeling a little better yesterday and today I have been a little better too. I was able to get the budget updated today (at least I can do that sitting down), but that wiped me out quite a bit. Since I've been typing this post, I've noticed that my eyes are not bothering me as much and they don't look quite as red so hopefully I am on the way up! However, I doubt I'm going to make it to self reliance group tomorrow. As long as my eyes are red and I'm coughing, I should probably stay away from people! It's just been really surprising to me how long this virus is hanging on. I can't say I feel significantly better today than I did on Monday. Here's a few pictures of my eyes, though. The first one was taken yesterday and the second one was taken this morning. (I am horrible at selfies, by the way. I have no idea how people manage to do that!):
Don't you think they are looking better? (You actually can't see how red they are. But I'll spare you the really gross close up pictures.)
I am grateful that Frank and Jared have been around to help me this week, that Seth isn't in school anymore so we didn't have to get up at a particular time most mornings, that I didn't have anything really, really important that HAD to be done this week, and that the car broke down at a time when we are able to manage with one car much better than we normally would (Seth doesn't have to go to school and Frank doesn't have to go to work.) See, I'm looking at the bright side!
It seems like we have had a lot of rain this week. It has rained most of the day today and we have had a few thunderstorms on other days--one on Monday was really heavy. It was really hot at the beginning of the week, with temperatures in the 90s and humidity 90% too. I have barely stepped outside the door all week, but the few times I have (to let Snickers out) it felt pretty yucky. Now it is not so hot and rainy so it feels more like spring than summer. Crazy weather!
Now it is time for dinner (which once again, I didn't cook) so I should wrap up this post and go eat. (Although I don't have much appetite. I have been like that all week. I do not feel nauseated, thankfully, I just don't have much of an appetite. At least that means that hopefully I have not gained 10 pounds this week, lying around and not exercising!) We're looking forward to seeing everybody next month! I hope you are all happy and MUCH healthier than I am!
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