I have been sick at home since last Saturday night. A WHOLE WEEK. I don't know if I have ever been sick this long without being in the hospital! Really! I have had a intermittent fever from 100-103 every day. Finally yesterday and today it has stayed below 100. I also now have an intermittent hacking cough that is wearing me out. Bob has one also. I am so impatient for it all to go away and to feel well again.
All the kids have been so good to me, picking up a few groceries here and there and things I thought I wanted to eat. Julie brought my orange juice I just could not live without, Alicia brought some gatorade and soup, and Lynn picked up several flavors of yogurt I wanted. I felt like the yogurt Nazi when I was making the list and giving orders to Courtney--fruit yogurt, strawberry, raspberry, cherry, but NO banana, no blueberry. Then I decided blueberry sounded pretty good, so put it back on the list. Then I called her and told her oh yeah, NO cheescake flavored yogurt either. I thought of a few more and just held myself back. Haha
Alicia brought me supper Wednesday night when I was particularly feeling rotten. Baked chicken, green beans, and boiled taters. It was good.
I finally felt well enough today to hold my sweet Garrett baby. I say "hold" in a purely figurative sense, because he is way too busy to be held. He crawled, climbed, wrestled and grabbed all over the place. He wants my glasses every time he sees them. I don't let him have them, just say "no" gently and take his hands off of them, but he still wants them...oh yes. I hope I am truly on the road to recovery, but I know a couple of days I thought I was well and then promptly took a nosedive.
This last week being sick has not been pleasant, but one thing I did enjoy is I didn't feel like doing much housework, so after I got the essentials done, I sat down and read or watched TV and didn't feel one bit guilty.
I don't really like TV, and especially daytime TV, but I do like the show "The Doctors" once in a while. I even watched an episode or two of "Days of Our Lives". I used to be a big Days fan. Mom always watched, and I knew who everybody was and how they are related from a young age. I believe after watching 2-3 episodes I would know exactly what was going on again. It just doesn't change.
What I really watched this week was my collection of Gaither tapes. I would watch one or just leave it in playing while I was doing something else. I watched most of the time. It has been a while since I watched any of them, and I had almost forgotten how much I always enjoyed them and how much they touch me. I didn't get through one video without crying at least once. Yes, I was sick and emotional, but they almost always affect me that way. Such good songs, such wonderful singers. I love them all.
Then tonight, on PBS, we tuned in to another Gaither video I had never seen, but I want now. Called Tent Revival, it was a wonderful collection of songs sung from the heart. Franklin Graham and George Beverly Shea were also on the video, and it was taped at the Billy Graham Library. Of course I cried.
I did get tickled at the man interviewing Bill Gaither. He acted like he knew all about Southern Gospel Music and the singers, songs, etc. but it was clear he didn't. He kept trying to call Larnelle Harris "Yarnelle" or something like that, and then after he introduced a segment by Guy Penrod he asked Bill something about Guy. Bill had to tell the man that Guy Penrod was a member of the Vocal Band for 14 years, and the man was surprised. Now nothing against not knowing your gospel singers all by name, but it was funny that he was acting one minute like he knew them all, and then showed he clearly didn't.
Got off the subject a little.
Anyway, it has really been a big blessing to me to have to slow down this week and get back into some things that are very important to me.
Thank You, Lord
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