Well, it has been 3 weeks now since I started getting sick. During that time my mom was hospitalized with spinal meningitis, (viral thank goodness!), My son got pneumonia, youngest daughter got an ear and eye infection, I got an upper respiratory infection that added a sinus infection, my brother got back from Afghanistan and a good friend went home to be with Jesus!! I still do not have my voice completely and I am actually wondering if it will ever come back! ALL of this was ALLERGIES GONE COMPLETELY AWRY!!!!!!!! How can that be?!?!? As mentioned in a previous post, SPRING: It's a LOVE/Hate thing! I so look forward to it every year and so fall prey to it every tear as well!
The meningitis thing was a HUGE education lesson for us all! They said there were 2 causes for it. The first was a sinus infection that went undiagnosed and treated and high stress in my mom's life led to the infection settling in her spine. Then a couple of days later, the Dr. saw her take her glasses off and rub her eyes! This is not uncommon for her at all. He said to never do that again! If you must rub your eyes, use a tissue or sterilize your hands before touching your eyes! The fluid in your eyes is the easiest way for infection to go straight to the spine! WOW! How does one go their whole life without hearing this stuff?!?!?! it is not until near death that you finally learn things. CRAZY! She is still not back at work, it could be yet another week! I know she is going stir crazy! She LOVES to be on the go, go, go all the time! I just keep reminding her, that is how she ended up in the hospital in the first place! She is now immune to one strain of viral-spinal meningitis! Did you know there are 7 strains? We did not either! LOL She had strain 6 and will never get that one again! I am not so sure how reassuring that really is! Anyway, tidbits of info as usual!
How does a young widow tell 3 small boys "Daddy is not coming home" how does she explain that he is no longer in pain and he is in Heaven with our precious heavenly Father, rocking our 2 babies that are already up there? How does she recover? How do you start life again and where do you start it?!?!?!?! These are all questions I have pondered over the last56 hours or so since the passing of our friend and neighbor on Friday afternoon. Mark had suffered from a cancerous brain tumor since November, just before Thanksgiving and the week before Christmas there was no sign of it at all! We were all convinced he was cured! They enjoyed a great Christmas and then in January he began having siezures! Come to find out the tumor was back and growing faster than ever! They tried an alternative therepy but to no avail! They finally had to just make his passing as comfortable as possible. HOW and WHY? Are what constintently come to mind. This got me thinking even more, what would I miss the most about husband if God decided to take him home tomorrow? Besides the obvious, what? One of the many things that crossed my mind, was she can no loger go run errands after the kids go down at night. I rarely do this as I am not a night person, but on those rare occasions that it has been a dreadful day and I just need to get away, that is the time I do it! What would you miss that you never thought about? Besides the obvious, my best friend, security, proud to be his wife, comfort, stability, a babysitter...What is something that comes to your mind as a 30something who is suppose to live well beyond the end of time! We are not suppose to go so young! I may add more to this later, but for now, I am leaving it at this.
