JULY"S jitterbug! and AUGUST'S Awful Spider

if you look closely at wedding pictures emma is kind of absent and pictures that she is in she looks miserable!  that is because she got a nasty bug the day before, high fever, couldn't eat, horrible cold sores, one nasty virus!  since we had so many wedding guests staying at our house and didn't want the bug to spread we had her sleep in our room!  the dr said it was strep but never gave her a culture, just looked at her mouth and it was so bad he gave her an antibiotic. about a week later, i started to feel extremely exhausted!  then came the body aches, high fever, sore throat....went to dr and my strep culture came back negative. (i dont think emma had it either) he gave me an antibiotic anyway because i had a ear infection and something nasty going on in my mouth.  after about a week and a half of being in bed i began getting the cold sores and for about a week i could not eat!  i recovered faster from giving birth then from this bug!  it completely wiped out my immune system and i was left with several weeks of no energy!  i would clean a bathroom, and have to lay down!  thank goodness for big kids who can go grocery shopping, cook, and clean!  and little kids who take such good care of lily!  emma has been amazing!  i really did not want lily to get sick so it forced us to get her to sleep in her own bed all night (yeah) and im so glad none of the other kids caught the bug!

i cant say that for kenny!  unfortunately he came home from work and suffered through the bug for about a week, missing work which he never does!  he had to suffer through the next week being sick, fighting a nasty mucus cough and like 4 days of non-stop hiccups at work!  we were a mess! 

the biggest bummer is that because he missed so much work, and how this bug leaves you with no energy, he had to miss the 50 miler he was planning on going with nick and jack!  he was so bummed!  he did go up one day and met up with them and had a great time! ......pictures of boys coming home from 50 mier!  he did go up half way through the week with some other members of our ward to cook the scouts some hamburgers after eating backpacking meals for a few days it was very appreciative!

so just as im feeling kind of normal i woke up with my wrist feeling funny...almost like i slept on it wrong...as the day wore on it got worst...the next day my whole hand was sore and in pain...i have had arthritas before in my wrist from a car accident many years ago but it would always flare up when the weather turned cold so this was different.  i began to ice it, take advil but no relief from anything.  the pain got so bad i had to go to ER...my hand was completely swollen and hot to touch!  the dr looked at sun spot i had and  saw a dark spot in the middle and said it looked like i was bit by a spider and gave me an antibiotic...2 days later, no change except more pain....no sleep because it is to painful at night to sleep even with kenny's stash of vicadin!....back to dr and they took some blood work to see what i wrong...another week off my life!  blood tests came back...not rheumatoid arthritis or gout, and other blood work normal!   so its been 3 weeks of not being able to use my right hand!  Our summer has been quite boring for the kids but they have been a great help to me!

What a blessing it is to be healthy and how often we take it for granted!  can't wait to feel normal and be able to clean my house!