Our lives have been put on hold this week, as our family has probably been the sickest we have collectively ever been. Madeline had a fever Thursday night, by Sunday Hannah and I were congested and sick, and by Monday afternoon Jonathan was sick. Jonathan took the girls to the doctor on Monday afternoon with temperatures of over 103 degrees. They came home with antibiotics (their first ever). I started fevering Tuesday night and am still running a fever even now as I type. I finally went to the urgent care yesterday and found out I have sinusitis and bronchitis--wonderful!!! So, now I am on an antibiotic--very tricky due to my penicillin allergy and the fact that I breast feed. But, they found something that would work. Emerson has remained healthy through all of this, but was running a fever this morning. So, please pray that she will not get as sick as the rest of us and will heal quickly.
Though we grow weary of the inside walls of our house, are tired of schlepping about in pj's and robes, and feel like we have thermometers growing out of our mouths (or bottoms in Emerson's case--haha), we are ever more grateful for our usual health. God is teaching me not to stress out about the fact that the carpet hasn't been vacuumed in dare I say 5-6 days, or the fact that thank you notes from Madeline's birthday remain unmailed (unwritten actually). Though we would rather feel good when we cuddle, He's allowed me lots of cuddle time with my kiddos, time off from our regular schedule, and an opportunity to trust in His reasons and His sovereignty--because believe me, when my fever shot back up today I was definitely asking, "Why God?"
Please remember the Brooks family when you pray. Pray that we would be healed and back to feeling like ourselves soon!!!
5 comments:
OUCH! Praying for all of you! Being sick is no fun!
Like you, I can't have penicillin either. Nor most of gerenic medicine. That isn't easy.
HUG medicine for you all and eat some Dark Chocolate as a wonderful medicine. Jesus is the Best Medicine of all.
Love you all!
Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion
So sorry to read you've been sick. We had something similar at the beginning of February. It was a week long ordeal of fevers and all kinds of things and both Tom and I ended up on meds.
Lest you ever feel the urge to beat yourself up because you haven't vacuumed in 5 days because you are sick, please remember me and be lifted up as I have neglected that task and others like it before for longer and I wasn't even sick!
Seriously, I totally empathize with the desire to get things back on track. Have some grace for yourself as you get to feeling better; it took me a good week before I felt like we were running like normal again.
Praying for all of you.
Praying for all of you!
Lori, praying for you all. Hopefully the older girls are on the mend. Antibiotics usually do the trick pretty fast. I pray little Emerson didn't get so bad. I have been praising the Lord for our good health this winter other than our merry-go-round episode of pink eye!
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