Kashann and Clan

Kashann gets sick after all

Brent and I have been Sick, Sick, Sick since last Friday night. We went out for burgers at Red Robin with friends and on the way home my throat started aching. By Saturday we were both confined to bed. I think I am finally on the mend since last night was the first night I could sleep more than one hour at a time.

I kept having these horrible nightmares that involved an aching throat. One night there was a electric mixer stuck in my mouth. No matter how many times I woke up and told myself that it was a nightmare, I still kept scraping the roof of my mouth to get it out. Then Monday night, I fell asleep with Brent watching American Gladiators. The noise was driving me insane and I threw a pillow over my head to block it out. But somehow I still absorbed it as that entire night there were gladiators beating me up that had come into my body with the medication I was on. Such nonsensce I know- but what agony! So last night when I only woke up twice (to hear Brent getting up to take more medicine) I was in heaven. This has been cruel torture for a mother about to have a baby.

I still have no voice, so don't call me. I am just over the aching body and fever but still am completely congested and coughing like mad. This better go away soon, because I have to be recovered by my due date. PLEASE! (The worst part about losing your voice is I can't get any of my kids attention. I started carrying around a bell, but apparently yelling worked way better. Caroline is pretty funny, and just thinks that it's a game. She keeps whispering back to me)

Brent missed school yesterday, but went this morning, still sweating with a fever. Those poor dental students aren't given a chance to be sick!

We have completely stopped answering our phone and the messages are stacking up. I got a hold of my counselors and the bishop and told them I am taking a little reprieve from my calling (seeing as I can't even talk). People kept calling me on Saturday that were sick in the ward and needing help with meals or kids. Brent talked to them and said sorry, but we are all in the same boat over here. I honestly don't see the point of meals being brought in. It's not like I want someone to come into my sick house. We can order in food, or just eat corn flakes for a few days and we will all survive. I think this running to all the sick houses in the ward is insane. We all just need to quarantine ourselves and tough it out. Especially if families are like ours and there are older children who can help out. The only one I really would like to have around is my mother, but then she would get sick and I would hate that too.

And by the way, I realize that I did indeed catch this bug from my kids. I think I will be just a little more careful in the future. I would've worn a face mask around them if I knew it would come to this.

Baby update
I am at the point now where I have weekly visits with the OB. The good news yesterday was that I for the first time lost weight. Yeah, almost makes the whole sickness worth it! Just 3 weeks left! In the last few days I have grown pretty accustomed to pain and sleep deprivation, so there should be little adjustment with the impending birth.