Flowers and "Bugs"

 

What a week!  Exactly a week ago I was busy around the house and looking forward to Mother's Day.  However, as the day progressed I began to feel worse and worse.  Developed an extremely painful sore throat, kept going hot and cold, head felt like a balloon.

Mother's Day dawned and I felt too ill to get out of bed. I could hardly speak.  We knew we were unlikely to see Nathan and Daniel as they both had colds but when Becky phoned to wish me a happy day we decided it was just as well.  We did receive a knock on the door and Mike answered it and took in some beautiful flowers for me sent by Becky, Dean and the boys and later Becky paid a short visit although she was not well herself.  She has a cold that has been going on for over two weeks.  I received a couple of nice gifts.  Mike also gave me some flowers.

Flowers from Becky and Dean

A week on and they still look just as fresh. 

From Mike ~ I shall be able to plant these in the garden.

After that I spent most of the rest of the day asleep and a good deal of the week as well.  My head hurt too much to read and I could only take a little t.v. at any one time.  Took the usual paracetamol, natural lemon juice, rubbed good old Vic around my nose and throat and kept warm.  Nothing seemed to help.

At just around midnight on Mother's Day we had a phone call from Becky.  Could Mike take Dean to the hospital?  Dean had a different sort of bug with a terrible cough.  He had seen his own doctor who said there was no treatment and it would just go on its own eventually.  Well, Dean got so bad that everytime he coughed he was sick and then he began to feel he could not breathe. So off they went to the hospital.  Mike got home around 2.30 a.m.  Dean has since been on strong antibiotics but it still very under the weather and has been unable to go to work, spending most of the time resting.  Poor Becky, she has had her hands full.  Not being well herself she has also had to look after Dean, Daniel had a bad cold and was also cutting teeth and poor Nathan is running a temperature and does not want to eat.

They have not been well since they came back from their short holiday so it seems likely they caught their "bugs" whilst away.  Where mine came from I have no idea.  I had not seen the family for two weeks so could not have been infected by them.

Mid-week, Mike goes down with what I have.  So, we have been a very sorry lot.  I feel better than I did but certainly not right.  Any illness sends blood sugars awry so I have had that to contend with as well and lying around in bed does not help but I was just too unwell to do anything else.  Hopefully the worst is over for all of us now and we will get better and better.  I know this virus, bug or whatever you want to call it has hit a lot of people and it can last a long time.

I cannot believe it is April already and still so very few signs of Spring.  Everything is so late this year.  This morning we had a tremendous hailstorm and the wind remains bitterly cold.

When I decided to take a break from journals, there was so much I wanted to get done but you know what it is like when you make plans, they usually do not pan out.  Hopefully I can get stuck into things very soon and one of the first things I want to do when I feel better is to get out into the garden and do some much needed weeding.

Last night was the first night I really felt like watching t.v. and I caught up on the soaps.  I thought the Johnny Allen/Mitchell brothers show down  in Eastenders was pretty ridiculous and, as if a life-long and hardened criminal and murderer like Johnny Allen would just hand himself in to the police to keep his daughter Ruby happy! 

After that I watched one of my Mother's Day presents - A Tale of Two Cities starring Dirk Bogarde.  As a lover of Dickens and this being one of my favourites I really enjoyed seeing it again after many years.

I will try and catch up on all your journals.  Happy April everyone.