Thanks.

<3 I am thankful for a Heavenly Father who loves me and is always there for me. For a Savior who died for me so that I could return to live with him--Which truly is the greatest gift of all.

<3 I am thankful for a wonderful family who loves me unconditionally. I am thankful for the relationships that I have with them and how as the years go by we get closer and closer.

<3 I am thankful for my husband. When I was 17 we would talk on the phone all day and all night and my mom just couldn't UNDERSTAND what was so great about this guy... It was all about the connection. I am so grateful for that connection that always brought us back to each other. He is my best friend, my soul-mate and the best husband I could ever ask for.

<3 I am thankful for my friends. Oh my friends. The ones that I always turned to, and always kept me hangin on even when I didn't want to. I have been so blessed with amazing friends throughout my life.

<3 I am thankful for good health. I've never had any serious illness, or even broken a bone.

<3 I am thankful that I have a job. And one that I enjoy. I love what I do and that makes things a lot easier and pleasant. I am thankful that Bobby has a good stable job as well.

These are just a few of the things I am so very thankful for. I love the holidays, and I love how it's a time we can reflect the past year and appreciate all the great things in our lives.

Dun dun dun......

Yes. We have the Swine flu in my home. And let me tell you. It's miserable.

I started to get sick a week and a half ago, but never got got a fever. It would come and go and I thought by the end of last week it was almost gone... well I was wrong! Saturday I worked all day and then took my niece Ellie out shopping and for dinner for her birthday and stayed out a little too late and ended up coughing all night. The next morning I woke up with a temp of 101.1. After taking Advil the temp went down and I thought I was good to go.. Bobby wasn't feeling sick so we ended up going over to my parents for dinner. I came home that night, went to bed and was up ALL night with a fever of 102. Nothing would make it go down. Oh I was beyond miserable. I finally woke bobby up around 5am and we called the ER at St. Vincent because I seriously thought I was dying. I talked to a nurse on the phone and she said it sounded like I had H1N1 and she told me to stay home and what I should do. Then I spoke to my primary doctor and she wanted me to come in. So we went in and I was feeling pretty freakin crappy and could barely breath. She made me breath into this thing that is supposed to open up your lungs.. didn't help too much. She prescribed me with tamiflu as well as a cough medicine with codeine that was supposed to knock me out since I hadn't slept in like 3 days.
After waiting in line at Rite aid for FAR too long I went home... tried to get some soup down although I hadn't eaten anything that day.. and took a warm bath for an hour. When I got out of the bath my body must have gone into shock because I started shaking really bad and turned blue. Bobby freaked out and didn't know what to do. I finally managed to get clothes on and crawl into bed in which I managed to make it to the bathroom in time to throw up the little soup i had eaten. At this point Bobby was downstairs while I was trying to sleep, he didn't know what to do so he said a prayer and his mom called him. After talking to his mom he got ahold of his Aunt who is a nurse in the ER and she told him to go get a humidifier, vapor rub, spray for my throat, crackers and gateraid. After all of this... I finally was able to breath and sleep.
I woke up at 4am so happy that I had slept 6 hours. I couldn't believe it! It had been so long since I'd really slept. Tuesday was quite a bit better. IB Profen seemed to be the only thing that kept the fever down... so i took that ever 6 hours. My visiting teacher brought us chicken noodle soup which was AWESOME and we had a 24 season 5 marathon. :) Sad to say, last night bobby was running a 100.5 temp. :(
So today we are both stuck at home. Sitting here... not doing much other than sleeping, and watching TV. I'm starting to feel better, the only problem is I can't breath very well. I feel like my oxygen level has been cut in half and nothing I do seems to make it better.
I'm really hoping I can be back at work by Friday... a good friend of mine is getting married and I'm supposed to be doing her hair!!!! aaahhhhhh!!!!
Amy our roomate has managed to stay healthy. She's pretty much stayed downstairs through all of this and when she does come upstairs she wears a mask. Smart move. I do not wish this flu on anyone! So everyone take lots and lots and lots of vitamin C and stay healthy!!!!!