The Germ Infestation

Let me tell you whats been going on in my house this past week... germs germs and more germs... ugh. icky. First, my hubby got sick. Then a few days later, my son started running fever and a few days after that, mommy was spiking a fever too. We were at some point all battling it at the same time. Somehow, my daughter escaped it all. I've no idea how!

Its been I don't know how many years since I've had that high of a fever, but I thought surely I was dying........... a bit over dramatic, you say?..... maybe.... but you weren't here to see me. I feel like a baby for complaining about it but it was bad. Fever spikes and drops, chills and sweats. (still battling the night sweats :( ) No real other symptoms to link it to a specific sickness so the doctor told me my favorite phrase (not!)... "its just a virus... you have to wait it out". No drugs, no miracle laboratory created treatment. just "Tylenol and rest". I know some of you with sympathize with me that hearing those words, as a busy mom, is almost as bad as being sick itself. So.... not wishing to infect this torture on the rest of the world, we stayed in the house. all week. suffocating our germy germs.

OK, so I don't think its any secret that I was a bit down when I wrote my last post. Its a bad place to be in emotionally. But it happens. A few hours after I wrote that post is when my first signs of fever started. Maybe the two were linked together and my insides were onto the sickness that was about to overcome me? Who knows, but today I'm in a little better place. 

ONE good thing came from being so sick. No appetite. none whatsoever. I weighed yesterday morning and lost 4 pounds. Thats the most my scale has moved in a while. not generally they way I prefer to lose weight, but I'll take what I can get. Hopefully they'll stay away.

I went grocery shopping yesterday so I could make a birthday dinner for my husband that didn't consist of cardboard, applesauce and noodles (because thats about what we were down to as far as supplies). It wasn't until I came home and was putting away my groceries that I realized my appetite must be back. Apparently I was in some weird walking coma at the store. I came home with some random craving induced purchases. Blue cheese stuffed olives. amaretto cherry ice cream. peanutbutter crunch cereal. dried banana chips.................... oh well. Back to trying to eat healthy a little at a time and figuring out how to lose myself a little at a time ;)

P.S. Thank you for the support messages. It really helps to know I'm not alone in this fight and its a good reminder of just how blessed I really am. Thank you. It means so much to me.