Comments on: ‘Tis the Season (Cold & Flu Season)

By: Daina

Daina — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:52:00 +0000

Oh one more thing: Tues. morning when I felt so awful, I just wanted to curl up and go back to bed, but couldn’t because I had to be Mom. I silently wished that someone would call and offer to take my boy for a few hours. Soon afterward I did get a call from a new friend who offered to come and take my boy for the morning. I am sure that my friend was prompted to do so. I was able to get the rest and long hot steamy shower I needed to make me feel better because of it. Boy did I offer up a prayer of thanks that day!

By: Daina

Daina — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:47:11 +0000

That was me on Monday– trying from 8 am until 8 pm to get antibiotics for a sinus infection. The day was full of phone calls, appointments, lots of trips to the pharmacy, and more phone calls. I thought I was going to die that day I felt so awful.I was not proud to be an American with its health care system that day.
But now I am so grateful for antibiotics, and I do thank Heavenly Father for them in my prayers!

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:08:57 +0000

I will be grateful the next time I have to get in my car and drive no more than 3 minutes away to see my doctor! Your train ride on top of it all sounds horrific.

I have 2 memories of the flu that always remind me of better times! Hope you’re feeling better…

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:57:20 +0000

Thanks for sharing, dear Heather. I’m so glad you’re on the road to recovery. Love you mucho.

By: E

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:43:51 +0000

To me, having a minor illness like a cold or sinusitis isn’t really that bad, but having the same illness while trying to take care of young children is awful.

By: Heather H.

Heather H. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:32:47 +0000

So true Dalene. I just had a conversation on the phone with my friend about that. Our husbands don’t get to take sick days off work when we are laid up and there just aren’t substitutes for our job.

I am really grateful that I have friends who took the kids to the playground and someone who kept my kids that day so I could sleep for a couple of hours.

Justine, if there is a way to do it (learn without the pain) and I figure it out, I will totally let you in on the secret, no strings attached, just because I love you. I just request the same favor in return.

By: dalene

dalene — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:06:50 +0000

Hope you and yours are all well and healthy again soon.

I have to say I have the hardest time not breaking out in hysterical laughter every time a doctor tells me to go home and take it easy or go home and rest (and it’s even a bit easier to do now the kids are older, but it’s still pretty much a ludicrous idea that moms have the luxury of going home and going to bed).

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:37:55 +0000

Oh, Heather, we all know how that feels! When you’d just as soon sleep on the waiting room floor than leave to come back another day. I’m a slow learner, too. I keep needing the stressful things to keep me close to the Lord, I guess. If only I were smarter and would learn without all the pain…

By: mormonhermitmom

mormonhermitmom — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:04:42 +0000

Amen. I don’t know how anyone couldn’t sympathize, because we all get it eventually.