Usually, the title of this post could completely describe Gracie's day-to-day mood/activities, but this week, it applies to the whole fam damily!
Sunday night I went to an InstaCare clinic because I had a painful rash on my chest and back and Mom said it looked like Shingles...which it turned out to be. I feel like a gross leper or something. However, my blisters are all healing up quickly and I've had almost no time to think about it, so it wasn't too bad! Thank goodness for medicine. The chickenpox virus is the one that, once you've had it, can give you shingles. Gracie has already been immunized for chickenpox, but Janie hadn't, so she had to be rushed to the pediatrician on Monday morning for 3 shots of her own :( I was so afraid she'd get sick, but I think the vaccination did it's job and she's just got a cold.
Monday morning, my dad went into the hopsital for a total knee replacement! Yay Dad!
Wednesday, I had to call an ambulance to come and get my mom because she was so sick that she couldn't move anymore. She went into the ER with basically NO blood pressure, bad fever and chills, NO oxygen in her blood, oh, and um, basically no blood...as she's been recovering from a round of chemotherapy. As it turns out, she has pneumonia! Who knew? Definitely not her doctors! (Even though she sees them multiple times a week.) It looks like she has pneumonia for several weeks now. Poor thing. The good news is, it's treatable and she's on the mend! Yay Mom!
Gracie's recovering from a bad cold and still has the smoker's hack, but other than that she's my same old fireball...seriously, I wonder why God didn't send her down here with RED hair?
Janie was recovering from the same bad cold, but got sick again and so she's still on cough medicine and the humidifier at night. She's slowly getting better, but each night is kind of tough for her still.
Joe has been my rock through all this...no colds, no knee replacements, no pneumonia, until Thursday when he had his first migraine on his drive home from work and threw up all over his car :( Isn't that horrible? I hope he wont get mad that I'm posting about it. Poor guy. He was really really sick for the second half of that day, but he's feeling better today. I've never seen him in so much physical pain. His mom gets horrible migraines and I think that subconsciously, I've been waiting for them to hit him too...I sure hope they're few and far between.
So, basically that's the recipe for my perfect storm. Here are some pics to lighten the mood...
Gracie is a daddy's girl. He's the one she calls for in the middle of the night, and when she gets hurt or sad. I don't blame her. I feel the same way about him. (I heart you, Joe.)
He lets her listen to music on his Blackberry...a classic!
I loved this picture when I saw it. Isn't he a cutie pie? I think Davey is up in heaven, looking just like his daddy these days...
Quote of the Day:
"Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee." -- Margaret Courtney
song, in my life, the beatles
2 comments:
You're a good mom taking care of all of us disease-ridden vermin. We're lucky to have you!! You're definitely the rock in our family!
SHEEZZZ!!!! You deserve some kind of medal to have lived through all of that and still have the energy to write so cheerfully about the ordeal. I told Joe today that when we are in town we need to take your girls from you for a couple hours and let you guys get some R&R. Hang in there!
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