A Few Sick Days but Getting Better!

 

Louis Dean was sick from Wednesday evening to Friday morning when he started feeling a little bit better - enough to put on a t-shirt and clean overalls.

He said he felt 'tolerable' meaning he could get up but he didn't feel like doing anything.

Tht didn't last long and he was back on the couch or in the bed for another day or two.

I went over to the Bells and picked up our cats to cheer him up.

He told me if I didn't go get them, he was going to have to get another kitty from the shelter!

I just puttered around not doing much all of Thursday and Friday except watching Louis Dean and taking his temperature every time he turned around. Still, he never ran a fever.

Lighting candles, playing music on the stereo, reading and watching a little TV......

....we have been 'laying low.

By Friday evening, I was sick.

We had already cancelled our plans for a Sibling Dinner to celebrate Lonnie's birthday so Saturday was a day of complete bed rest for me and, since Louis Dean was feeling better, it was his turn to hover over me. Amber brought over meds, chicken noodle soup, crackers, oranges, milk, a rotisserie chicken, cough drops, and tissues Saturday night.

Sunday was a day much like Saturday. 

We stayed in bed a lot and watched football in the afternoon.

Every day we are feeling better. Louis Dean is ahead of me since he got sick first.

This morning (Monday) I got up at 8:00 and made up the bed!!

Louis Dean got up an hour later and I made up our bed, too!

We had 10:30 appointments at a drive through Covid testing Center since there was no way of knowing if we had that or plain old colds. There was not one other car in line when we arrived at 10:30!

However, it was not the rapid test where you find out in 15 minutes! It was take 3-5 days.

No worries since we aren't planning on getting out until we are completely well.

Today was pretty weather so Louis Dean said he was going outside to 'play.'

Since it was so pretty, I took our late breakfast out to the deck.

You can see he is looking much like his healthy self!

As am I! We still have a bit of a cough from time to time but nothing like it was.

I had a headache for 3 days and thank goodness THAT'S gone!

Neither one of us has had any fever.

I ordered a rapid test from Amazon and it will be here tomorrow so maybe I will know then if we have Covid or not.

In other news, Sabrina and Rayne are staying with their mom and she is doing better....but she was pretty sick. They only kept her in the hospital for one day. 

Summer has no 'safe place to land' here in Texas with so many of the family sick so she's staying safe in Arkansas at the Bar J Ranch doing some volunteer work.

We are enjoying our kitties and they keep us entertained!

My friend, Brenda, brought over a box of goodies this afternoon and I foolishly opened the door after she had stepped back on the driveway - and Tabitha bolted!!

She did that when Amber came on Saturday night, too.

Silly me!

Both times she was captured quickly!

I am honored that so many friends have been praying for us and it is our honor to pray for YOU!

Lillian called me today and said, "Linda! I have more mail!"

She was excited and I couldn't understand every word she was saying but I did hear that there was a card with a message from Tennessee. She has a new 'person' now. That's what she calls a new roommate. She said, "This is the first one I have LIKED!"

I promised her we would visit as soon as we get well!

We are all doing the very best we can to comfort and pray for one another! That's True Love!