Any Given Saturday

Today was a pretty typical Saturday in the Schiff household. It involved a great mix of playing/enjoying outside with friends and lots of food.
It is soooo nice to be back amongst the living. Last Sunday I got a horrible headache. I didn't think much of it. I took some Tylenol and it seemed to get better. That evening we went to eat at our FAVORITE restaurant (BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT IN TOWN HANDS DOWN!!)and I couldn't taste the food :( After we got home I was sooo tired I couldn't stay awake. As soon as I laid Ollie down that night I went right to bed and left Sam to put the bigger kids to bed by himself. Ollie got up a few times during the night and I didn't feel right when I got up to nurse him. The next morning I could barely get out of bed. Tired is not the right word. Exhausted is not the right word. It felt like I had been drained of all my energy during that night. I could barely walk. My headache was back and I felt a swollen gland in my throat. There was a ton of pressure behind my right eye but I couldn't get any relief. I don't like taking medicine so the only thing I took was Ibuprofen to hopefully help with the pressure and the feeling my head about to explode. That day was long and hard with Ollie since I couldn't just lay around I had to keep going. As soon as Sam got home that night I went right to bed and left him to put all three kids to bed by himself. The several times I got up that night with Oliver I could tell I was not better. The following day is when the fever started. I was hot, I was freezing cold, I had the headache and the EXTREME fatigue was going no where. I slept for two hours that day when Oliver napped and woke up EXHAUSTED still. That night when I tried to go to sleep I was shivering soo bad I couldn't fall asleep and this was one of the 70 degree days we had last week so it really wasn't cold out I just had a fever. Sam got out the heating blanket for me and I tossed and turned all night with a fever of about 103. The headache was unbearable. Finally sometime during the night my fever broke and I woke up sweating buckets. Poor Sam and Oliver were burning up too becasue I was laying there with the heating blanket on full blast. On Thursday I felt a little more normal. I actually had some energy and cleaned my kitchen which felt really good but I think I overdid it a bit and was zapped of energy by the end of the day. Friday was a little bit of a setback the headache came back but finally some of the pressure was releasing and I was able to blow my nose and get some of the yuckky junk out of my head.
The awesome part of the this sickness was I was not hungry AT ALL. I lost 5 lbs. during the 5 day ordeal. It was water weight becasue I was still drinking lots of fluids. I was so tired and sick though that I couldn't even read my book! I got Mockingjay from the library about 5 days before my sickness and only read about 1/4 of it. Yesterday with my newfound life energy I finished the book. I cried my eyes out at the end. I couldn't believe the author didn't make Katniss and Gale still good friends and that Katniss and Peeta still struggled with their demons on a daily basis. I'm all about happy endings and wished that the Capitol could have given them some drug or treatment to make them forget all the bad stuff and go back the to lovely dovey relationship that they should have had if not for the Quarter Quell. But honestly, I LOVED the series. I'm needing to find another good book to read.
Anyway, back to today. It was lovely to feel better (not 100% but still) and to be able to play with my kids and joke around with my husband. This is what life is all about. I guess that is one thing being sick can do: make you appriciate not being sick and precious time with your loved ones. Oh and I think I gained all 5 lbs. back today. I made green cupcakes with my new all-natural food coloring and we went back to our FAV restaurant and I could actually taste the yummy food this time so I made up for not being able to taste last time BIG TIME ;-p