I've been sick since Monday. It was the worst. With fever, chills, headaches, nausea, a sharp pain in my side, dizziness, a ringing in my ears... in short, the whole caboodle. At the height of it, I seriously thought I was going to die. But then, I would fight it and try and get better, even if just for an hour, so that I can see my kids... I missed them. They were my strength. My hubby was my rock, though. He made sure I was ok. Forcing me to sleep in a sweater, jogging pants and socks (!) so that I would "sweat out the fever"... sigh... But it worked! He's a sweetie.
A miracle happened while I was sick. On my second day of being sick (Tuesday), I couldn't take not playing with the kids anymore, so I went up to see them - just for 20 minutes. The day after that, two of them had fever and the beginnings of what I hoped was not pneumonia. I'm very familiar with pneumonia because of the kids. Micael's fever was so high and he was so sick that he couldn't sleep well. He would moan in pain in his sleep. My poor baby... My heart broke when I held him (he was soo hot) and I felt terrible that I might have infected them. Gabe seemed ok, just that he had a fever. I prayed that night for Mama Mary to watch over all my babies and let them have "healing sleep". Also for the yayas to have the patience and love and good sleep so that they aren't short tempered with the kids and no one suffers from bad moods.
On Thursday, it was like Gabe wasn't sick at all! No fever, nothing! Micael also had no fever, he was clear-eyed, rested and in a great mood! The only sign that he was sick the day before was that he had almost no voice. But today, Friday, it was like nothing! He's back to normal! It really was a miracle and answered prayer for me. I couldn't stop thanking Mama Mary and Jesus for listening to me and for giving me what I had asked for. I know that their recovery would not have been possible that quickly and pretty much painlessly without Their help.
I'm back at work now and it's not as bad as I feared. It's not easy being here, but it's also not as painful as I thought. My headeache isn't recurring too badly. Just a dull ache. Maybe I'm really (finally!) getting better!
