Getting Better

This weekend was all about getting better! My hubby, Rich, was really sick last week. He doesn't get this sick very often. He had been struggling with allergies the last few weeks and then he caught this terrible cold. He went to work Monday and Tuesday feeling bad. When he got up Wednesday morning, I said, "Honey, you are not going to work!" This time he agreed with me and I knew he had to be feeling bad. He rested all day but was weak and looked very pale. He did a lot of coughing and then in the evening he said he was having trouble breathing. I asked him if he wanted me to take him to urgent care but he said he thought he would be alright until morning. I got a 9:00 am doctor's appointment. He was gone for a long time and I began to worry. He told me when he got back, that they almost put him in the hospital because his blood oxygen was so low. They put him on a breathing machine with medicine in a vapor form and his blood oxygen level went up 5 points. So that was good. They took a chest x-ray and his lungs were clear. So, no pneumonia. Thank goodness. The doctor told him that all the allergies from the spring pollen had aggravated his asthma and set him up for getting this bad cold. So, he gave him a very strong antibiotic and an inhaler. He came home and rested all day and his color looked much better and his cold began to clear up! Poor little Mary felt so sorry for Daddy! She laid on the foot support of the recliner he was in. He didn't want her to get too close, so she wouldn't get what he got. But... the next day she came down with a runny nose and a slight cough. So, we couldn't take her to church. She is recovering quickly. Today she has a very slight runny nose and is running around as usual. Thankfully she has been a very healthy child. She has had no major cold, flu or sickness yet and she is 2 1/2! What a blessing from the Lord. The dear Lord has been easy on us, as He knows how worried we would be if she got really sick.

Thank goodness the sickness is on its way out the door!