Weekly Review February 28 '20

Well, this week was fun. Not really...that was sarcastic, but of course you can't hear my tone of voice when you're reading this. I mean, nothing really terrible happened (thankfully) but we have all been sick. Frank started feeling sick on Saturday (the 22nd). He stayed home from church on Sunday and on Monday the 24th he still felt terrible, so he decided to go to the doctor. But first, he went to work for a few hours because there was something unavoidable that he needed to be there for. At the doctor he was tested for the flu, and the test came out positive. He DID have a flu shot this year, so where's the justice in that?? But one thing about getting diagnosed with the flu is that it convinced him that he needed to stay home for a few days. He still got a number of phone calls from work and did some work remotely on Monday afternoon, but he didn't do anything for work on Tuesday and Wednesday. He was starting to feel a bit better by Thursday the 27th which is good because he had more unavoidable things to do at work (as in, people had flown in from somewhere else to do something) and Thursday night he had another POS installation to do at a store so he was up a lot of the night. The original plan was that he would go in to work for a few hours Thursday morning and then come home and rest until he had to go back in to work that evening. But of course once he got to work there were a ton of things to do and everybody needed him so he didn't come home until about 4:30. I was feeling pretty anxious about him over-doing it and getting really sick again, but so far today he seems to be okay although of course he is tired. (I mean the fact that he is needed so much at work is good for job security, but seriously I think they are going to kill him with all the work he has to do!)

Meanwhile, I started to feel slightly "off" on Tuesday the 25th, but I kept hoping I was just imagining it. However, on Wednesday the 26th I definitely felt worse and Thursday the 27th I was feverish and really wiped out. Today I am starting to feel a bit better...I don't feel feverish anymore, I'm not coughing much and I'm not so achy. I do, however, have no energy whatsoever. I think it's going to take awhile before I get my energy back. For Frank and I, the flu has been mostly coughing, fever, headache, and general aches all over. Frank has had some congestion but I really haven't. It's kind of weird to be really sick without having a lot of congestion, but I'm not complaining about that! Seth said he was feeling fine on Tuesday, but I noticed that he was coughing a little bit on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. So when I got a call from the school nurse on Wednesday afternoon saying he had come in complaining of not feeling well, I wasn't incredibly surprised. His temperature was only slightly elevated and she said he could stay at school if I didn't want to come get him until dismissal (which was only about an hour away) but I told her I was sure he was coming down with something since we were already sick, so I went & picked him up. By evening he had a fever and then he threw up too. On the living room floor--he didn't make it to the bathroom--which Frank & I weren't very happy about. (He claims he didn't feel like he was going to throw up until it was too late, but we keep telling him he's old enough he should be able to tell by now!) So we had a mess to clean up (of course it was on the rug, not on the wood laminate floor, which would have been a lot easier to clean) when neither of us were feeling well either. At least he hadn't eaten dinner or lunch, so there wasn't much in his stomach. We had Seth sleep on our bedroom floor in a sleeping bag that night, and he threw up 3 or 4 more times in the early hours of the morning but we put a bucket by him so at least clean up was easy. Not a very restful night, though--he was moaning in his sleep a lot too. Frank threw up once too--last night while he was at work--but he seems okay now, and he and Seth have both been able to eat normal food. I did have to do the "1 tablespoon of soda every 10 minutes for 2 hours" routine with Seth on Thursday morning, but that did the trick--that calmed his stomach down and he was able to start eating crackers and things like that. Seth seems totally back to normal now and he doesn't even seem to be tired. (He was thinking he was going to school this morning until I told him I thought he needed to stay home since he had a fever the day before.) Frank still has a really wicked cough, but he has trouble with coughing even when he's well so I'm not sure how much of it is from the flu and how much of it is normal. But anyway...we are all on the mend and glad to be over the worst of the flu.

That covers most of what we did this week, but there were a few other things. I can't remember anything about Saturday the 22nd now, but I think I mostly did the usual things like practice ukulele and work on things for my church callings. On Sunday the 23rd we watched the face to face devotional for the youth with Seth. We decided to watch it at home rather than go to the church, which all things considered is probably a good thing. (Frank wouldn't have gone with us if we'd gone to the church either.) I had choir practice before church and the choir sang in sacrament meeting. Seth came with me to choir practice since it was right before church and I wouldn't have had time to go back and get him. (If Frank had been well, they would have come to church together in a separate car.) I got a lot of errands done on Monday the 24th which is good since the rest of my week wasn't very productive. For family night activity we watched some episodes of Studio C--we picked that since Frank wasn't really feeling up to playing a game or anything. I went to an RS activity Tuesday evening--it was a dinner to celebrate the birthday of RS. I debated a bit about whether or not to go to that since I was starting to feel like maybe I was getting sick, but I really wanted to go so I went. It was fun and the dinner was delicious and I'm glad I got to do that since I was pretty cooped up the rest of the week. Hopefully I didn't expose a bunch of people to the flu, but since I knew it was slightly possible that I was getting sick I was really careful and kept my distance from people--no hand shaking or hugging or anything!! I worked on the Christmas stockings a bit and have made some progress. I probably would have got a lot more done if I had been feeling well, though.

Seth and I were supposed to go to the dentist on Thursday afternoon but I called Wednesday morning to cancel those appointments and rescheduled them. I also emailed my supervisor at the tax place on Wednesday morning to let her know I wasn't coming in, and I arranged to have someone else help with the girls' Primary activity Thursday evening. Yep, Thursday would have been a very busy day, if I had been well. Instead I spent the day on the couch, keeping and eye on Seth. I took a few short naps too. I did manage to get the laundry done, but just doing that much was draining. I watched a lot of stuff on Netflix and Disney plus on Wednesday and Thursday since I wasn't feeling well enough to do much else. I watched the live action version of Aladdin and the classic Lady and the Tramp (cartoon version), both of which I had never seen before. They were pretty good, but I was getting tired of lying around doing nothing and I'm glad that today I have been feeling well enough to do a few things like updating the budget. 

I usually do the grocery shopping on Wednesdays but I wasn't feeling well enough to do that on Wednesday and Thursday I was even worse. So I was worrying about how we were going to get the food we needed because Frank wasn't feeling well either and I didn't want him to spend the little time he had to rest on Thursday going to the store. But then I remembered that the WalMart near us has a free pickup service--you order what you want online and pay for it online and they put it all together for you and all you have to do is pick it up. They've had this service for about a year now but I've never used it because I prefer to do my own shopping--especially I prefer to pick out my own produce. So anyway, that's what we did. I went online Thursday morning and ordered what we needed and Frank picked it up that evening. It was pretty great! I'm glad that option is available because it was really what we needed this week. As nice as it was, I will probably only use it for emergencies. I would feel like a lazy bum if I had someone else do my shopping for me every week!

Anyway, that was our exciting week. Not much fun, but we're glad to be feeling better than we were. Everyone is getting hungry so I'd better go get some dinner made.