Beyond the Sniffles

So what I started out with on Sunday was nothing like it's turned into. Monday and Tuesday I could barely get out of bed. My posts were one of the few things I did all day. My mother came over to help out around the house so I could sleep. By body ached and burned and pounded and ran and dribbled. Today I finally had enough energy to get up, but within minutes of being up I started sweating profusely. It totally drained me to get up! So I stayed home yet another day. It's my 3rd day of antibiotics and I can tell they are working because I'm beginning to feel more like me, except that every hour I'm running to the bathroom with a nasty belly emptying. I recently watched Pollyanna with my kids and I was reminded to play the game where you look for the good in every situation. Laying down with a cloth over my eyes while my body dragged, I began to play. I am thankful that my kids aren't sick. I am thankful that my mother is here cleaning up my house! I am thankful that I have a doctor who was willing to prescribe me medicine. I am thankful that I can afford the medicine. I am thankful that I have people in my own community who told me that they'd help out if I'd ask them. And before long I wasn't well, but I did stop feeling sorry for myself. And I guess that's what it's all about. So right now, I am thankful that a church member is running to my office to get me some much-needed stomach medicine for me. I am thankful that I've been married 13 years to a wonderful man as of today. I'm thankful that my dog is here with me even though my mom and the kids have gone and my husband is in school all day.

And this is the news from Arbuckle Creek, where Pollyanna still lives within a 13 year married lady; where church members look out for their pastors, and where the turtles are sunning themselves on the banks of the canal where no gator has been seen in months!