Sickness

Please pray for us! Michael is now sick, which makes this bully we call "icky" has stayed around for three weeks now. He comes and goes and comes back looking like something different every time. But I am about sick of him.

In the beginning of the month, Michael had he fever virus. I dind't know at that time what it was so we took him in to the doctor, paid them about $80 for them to tell us that yes he was sick but because it was a virus there was nothing they could give him. He had it for about 4 days and got better. A few days after that Jeremiah had it. His temperature got up to 104.5 at one point and like to stay around 103. It took him longer to get over, but after about 5 days and a $150 doctor visit (which they told me he had a fever virus and nothing any of us could do anything) he got better. That was Monday. Now it is Saturday and last night Michael started running a fever. He had a running nose all day yesterday and seems to have an upset stomach. I am already exhausted and have not recovered from the last sickness, and neither has our checking account - yikes,

Why does a runny nose accompanied with a fever always have to mean swine flu? I remember being sick many times with a runny nose and I was never oinking. Hopefully this will just clear up on its own and I won't hear any oinking from the nursery.

Not trying to complain. I am just exhausted from this sickness in more ways then one.

One thing that I try to remember at all times with the boys and especially when they are sick is how thankful we are. A friend of mine tragically lost her baby at the end of her pregnancy. Her husband wrote on their blog on his 3rd birthday (the same day the boys were born) some things that he has learned. (They now have 2 children). One of them was that he is thankful when his little girl throws up on him in the night because that means that he has a little girl! I read that the morning that I gave birth to the boys and it helped form our attitude through those 2 am feedings and sleepless nights in the beginning and has helped our perspective during those often sleepless nights these past weeks. Every morning at 2 am when Mike and I would crawl out of bed to feed those little 5 pound boys we would say outloud "I am thankful I get to get up at 2am because that means we have babies to feed!" And even now when we are up in the night with running noses and upset tummies and when we have to pay so much to take them to the doctor I will say "I am so thankful that I get to be up this morning, or I am so thankful that I am taking him to the doctor because that means I have babies that I get to take care of."

If you would be so kind and just pray for our little family and pray that Michael will get better quickly, not require a doctor's vist, and that we would all stay better!