Has anybody missed me????
OK probably not, but it’s been way too long since I have posted regularly. Well I think the beginning of our year was cursed. 2007 has been a really tough year and it’s only just begun, well kinda sorta! We were sick from January through the beginning of April, if it wasn’t one thing it was another. Since the Bean is in daycare she gets and brings home everything and I guess we’ve done our share of taking illnesses to school as well.
We’ve done the head congestion thing, we’ve had sore throats mixed with ear infections with a side of pink eye and our ultimate favorite (add sarcasm) the roto virus. That’s the one we got from our friend’s kids. Jill was with them for about 5 minutes on a Sat and on Sunday night she woke up about 9:30 pm fussing which is really unlike her since she loves her sleep. So I took her in the kitchen and was trying to make her a bottle thinking she must be hungry, why else would the queen of sleep be up. Well luckily I had my back to the sink and Jill had her head on my shoulder when the eruption began. She covered both sides of the sink, it was so lovely. But then that was it, she laid her head down and went back to sleep. I held onto her for a while anticipating more, but she was done. She never had fever or any other symptoms, so we took her to school Monday morning. Our friends called Monday to let us know that their kids were really sick, we told them what happened but that she was fine now. Well by the time we picked her up that after noon and got home, E and I began our fun. We were sick from 7pm to 7am, I slept in one bathroom and him in the other, literally on the bathroom floor, I could never make it further away that that. And then this lasted ALL week, Monday night thru Thursday night, up sick all night major cramps all day, what a miserable week for E & I. Jill never got anything else but did manage not give it to the others in her class who gave it to their siblings in other classes and before the week was up kids in all classes were affected by it, so I guess I can not complain about anything we get from school, nothing can be worse that what we spread around there already.
In February E’s Grandfather passed away, so we flew up to NJ for the funeral and arrived to find his whole family with the flu, and it was BAD. I spent the next few days trying to keep Jill away from sick people, which was impossible. E got it our 2nd day there, so Jill and I slept in another room trying to keep her well, but that didn’t work. She fell asleep on our way home from the airport (which we were stuck at for over 4 hrs after the plane landed, E laying on the floor sick as a dog. We were told our luggage could be on any flight coming from that city that day and we had to wait on all flights to land before we could report our luggage missing. It arrived on the third flight of the day and we were on the first, gotta love Air Tran) and as soon as we got home she woke up with a terrible cough and then the rest of the fun started. Luckily I didn’t get that one so I took care of them.
They got over the flu and then Jill got another ear infection before my grandfather was admitted to the hospital the middle of March with congestive heart failure. He was there for a week before going home and luckily he is doing a lot better. He just had a pace maker/difibulator put in on Tuesday and is home and doing well. The week after he came home my great grandmother was admitted to the hospital with heart trouble as well. She had leukemia also so with that and the heart trouble her outcome was not as good. She passed away on March 24th and I miss her so much. When she was admitted to the hospital E and I talked about how we needed to make time to visit her more often and make sure she got lots of time with Jill, but we were only able to do that that last week in the hospital. She was an incredible, faithful and beautiful woman and I miss her so. I got a plant from the girls at work giving their condolences that I now keep in my room. I have never been able to keep plants alive, but this one is beautiful and thriving. It makes me think of great grandma everyday when I wake up and before I go to sleep. I feel like I think about her more now than when she was here, that makes me happy and sad at the same time. I guess I just took her for granted, I knew she was getting older but I thought she would pull through this like she had in the past. Although I miss her it gives me comfort to know that her true love and her daughter were waiting for her and I know she isn’t in pain anymore. I actually had a dream that she came to my house and when I opened the door she was standing there with her back straight, standing tall and proud, as beautiful as ever and with no cane or walker, she was so happy and I know that she IS happy, she wanted me to know that. Well now that it’s getting heard to type through tears, I’ll end our year’s troubles there.
It’s all over now, we are all well and the year is back on track. The next post will be a happy one, all about Jill’s changes and accomplishments, she’s no baby anymore she’s my big girl now!!!!
posted by ninibeans @ 1:01 PM
1 comments
