Sick

Nobody likes being sick but I will take a cold any single day of the year over having a stomach bug. Getting a stomach flu seems to be becoming a every summer occurance for me and I do get flu shots. I always chalk it up to occupational hazard and as hard as this is to believe, I will take getting a stomach flu once a year rather then give up my job. God has given a burden for caring for preschoolers no matter how many germs they may pass on to me.

Anyway back to the real reason for this entry...

Brian has not been feeling well either but for a different reason. He has been very dizzy all week which makes it quite hard to do his job. He went to the doctor yesterday and she has him do all these things and kind of makes a lot of "huh?" noises then and goes and gets the other doctor in the practice. She comes in and does the same things and makes a lot of "huh?" noises. Not exactly what you want to hear. So they take some blood and tell him to call them by 10am tomorrow if they have not called him. This is great. I can barely move off the couch and my husband has something wrong with him but they have no idea what it is and I can't go to the doctor with him because I can't move off the couch.

This morning comes and the doctor sends him to get a cat scan. Brian is telling me they will finally find the giant tumor he has always tried to convince me he has had. For the entire time I have known Brian, everytime he is sick he says it is because of a tumor. Obviously it is a joke but this time since a cat scan was involved I did not find it very funny. In the end he has enlargement of his membranes from an infection, most likely sinus related. So as of now all he needs is an antibiotic. Praise God!

Now if you think being sick is horrible, which it is, then don't try both parents being sick at the same time. My poor children were making PB&J and cereal for every meal. Thankfully I had cut up a cantelope before I got sick so there was some fruit for them to eat. There was good that came out of both of us being sick at the same time though. It was obvious I was sick but with Brian it wasn't as obvious. If I had been fine I think the kids would have noticed how Brian felt. I also think Alyssa would have been very worried about him because she is old enough to realize people don't just get dizzy all the time. Instead she was more worried about Carter not saying, "Mommy is puking again!" because she cannot stand that word. She says blah blah instead. I guess if I had to get sick to take the attention off of Brian, I would do it again. I mean that is what you do for your children right?