Sick of Being Sick

Some of you may have noticed my absence from the blogging community and wondered where I have been. I would now love to inform you all that we have been taking a thoroughly enjoyable exotic vacation and that I will soon have some lovely pictures to post. Unfortunately that is not the case.

The truth is that we have all been sick and there will be no pictures coming because 1) I have been too ill to take any and 2) It hasn't been pretty. David was the first one to get sick a couple weeks back. A few days later Derek came down with it and then finally I did. I was definitely the most severe case, but after a few days it seemed like we were all on the mend although I still felt fairly weak and shakey and Derek and David still have a lingering cough.

Then on Thursday I felt a bit worse. An hour later I felt a lot worse. By the time afternoon rolled around I had a fever of 104, was hallucinating, had chest pains, and was gasping for air. Somehow I managed to get David into his crib so I could crawl into bed and call Derek. I hated hearing David scream (it wasn't naptime) to be let out, but I could hardly move. Derek came home and took me to the Dr where in addition to collapsing in the middle of the hallway (not embarrassing) I had labs, chest x-rays, and a couple liters of IV fluids pumped into me. The diagnosis was H1N1 plus a nasty case of pneumonia. I got to go home on the condition that if I got any worse I would go right to the hospital and they recommended that David be sent to my mom's until my fevers started to come down to prevent him from getting pneumonia too.

The last few days aren't something I particularly want to remember much. David was a pirate for halloween and I'm sure he was incredibly cute. I wouldn't know though because at the time my fevers were still around 102 and I was mostly confined to bed. Yesterday was the first day I was able to spend a significant portion of the day out of bed (and also get David back!) and today I was even well enough to care for David for several hours while Derek worked. So I am getting better. Thanks to everyone who has been concerned and sent their thoughts and prayers. Hopefully this will all be over soon.