* cough cough *

mmm hmm * cough *

You may want to put on a mask and gown to read this post.  The lady in the pathology collection put them on to take a swab from me yesterday.

Why??  Well.... it seems that things our children are immune to, such as whooping cough, are fair game for their parents, for whom immunity has worn off.

I am waiting for the test results, but our Doctor suspects that Brad and I both have whooping cough.  Not deadly, but extremely irritating, debilitating, tiring, and so not what I needed for the next few months.

Oh well, I did see my lovely friend Tonia at Malanda Sewing & Quilting today, and had some wonderful fabric chat, and a few little things might just have found their way into my bag :-)

Yours in exhaustion,

My Easter prayer

Lord, on the day when you prove to us that you are the bringer of all things - life, death, love - my small prayer is for improving health in our family....  we are really trying to take care of ourselves, but your helping hand would (as always) be gratefully appreciated.  Amen.

We took our little Easter break, for 2 nights in Cairns.  Apart from the kids being much rattier than usual, Brad has come down with a chest infection that has him coughing and gasping.  We had a trip to the medical centre, and he is on antibiotics etc, but we are all so tired, we feel like we have come home for a rest, when of course that was what the break away was supposed to be!

But the Lord is Risen today, Alleluia!

In and out... of hospital

Well, this classifies as just about the worst couple of weeks we have had for a long time. 

Ryan has been in and out of hospital with chesty wheezing, suspected asthma, finally diagnosed with bronchitis.  We have been told to expect a 12 week recovery period, and he has been on steroids for a week now, and several days to go.  We are learning to cope with giving him ventolin through a mask and spacer, every 3 hours, which is traumatic for all of us.  But watching him struggle for breath is far worse...

We all had a night's sleep at home last night, but I think it will be a long time before I let Ryan sleep in his own room by himself again.  The thought of missing the signs of an impending bout of wheezing scares me.

On top of this, Brad had day surgery under general anaesthetic to have some teeth surgically removed, and Naomi had a nasty gastric bug last weekend.  Suffice to say I am buying us a new feathr duvet, because the old one took quite a beating one night.

Anyway, on happier news, I have been able to do a bit of crochet while sitting in the hospital rooms :-)

I hope your families are all healthier than ours has been!