Piggy Flu yuckiness

Its been forever since I wrote a blog update! We have a very good reason though, or should I say multiple reasons!?

Last Monday, I went all over town looking for baby things for his room... I was looking for big stuffed animals that stood up, like lions, tigers, giraffes, monkeys, etc... So I could make his room like a safari type of atmosphere... I was thinking about hanging vines from the ceiling etc etc... Anyway, that Monday, I was off, so I set out on an adventure looking for anything that I thought I could use somehow... I felt great when I woke up!!! I went to Michaels, AC Moore, Walmart, Target, Pier One, Babies R Us, Several Dollar Stores, and even Sams... My aunt told me to check Sams, and I am so glad I did! I found the cutest lion that stands up... he is about 2 feet tall and baby boy can sit on his back until he is probably around 2 years old, so he is the perfect addition to the room plans! :) You would have thought I was a weirdo if you had seen me grabbing him, when I saw he was the last one... It wasnt a bad price either, so I was ecstatic to find him! I found some other things at Babies R Us and the palm tree I've been looking for at Michaels... But, the only thing I purchased was the lion... He rode in the very back of my CX-7 very happy to know he had a new home :)

So when I finished on Monday with shopping and errands, I was so tired, I went home to take a nap... I had no clue that by 10:00 that night, I would be laid out, and done with feeling good...I started feeling achy and I went from no sore throat to a terrible horrible no good very bad sore throat within hours that night... Tuesday, I went into work thinking I could make it through and maybe I could get to feeling better, but by mid day I felt like I had been hit by a bus!!! My throat felt like someone was stabbing it over and over... I coughed so much I couldnt talk, and my head and body was aching like crazy!!! I left work and ran to CVS to buy a thermometer and took my temperature... after seeing it was over 101, I called my OB... She immediately called me back and said it was definitely swine flu and that I needed to get home and lay down... She called me in tamiflu and said for me not to even pick it up, to make Zack go get it...

After Zack hearing over the phone that I could hardly drive home, much less do anything for myself, he left work early and rushed to get my prescription and take care of me... He came home with allll kinds of soups, tea, honey, frozen noodle dinners, and said he would take care of everything. I was so out of it, that at the time, I just nodded and tried to sleep... When I got to feeling better a few days later, I took a picture of how he had laid out a little of the stuff he had bought for our sick week... haha!

As you can see, he had no clue how long we'd be sick, so he bought the store out of soups, haha! The green tea was yummy and the honey was to sweeten it with, since honey has good antioxidants in it for your body :) What a thoughtful hubby! :)

By Tuesday morning, Zack felt the same way I did the night before, he was soooo sick. He ended up having swine flu as well and got tamiflu to treat it... We were a sad sickly pair of people... Our kittens thought we were dying Im sure, because they have never seen us stay in bed for more than 7 or 8 hours at a time... We were literally in bed for 5 days straight... On the 4th or 5th day, we were able to get up and walk a bit, but we were still so weak and sick that there was no going out or no getting anything done that needed to be done on projects around the house...

See, our floor in the dining room hadnt quite gotten finished, so our house was a total wreck still. The floor wasnt done because we found a leak in our back door as we were ripping up old flooring and ended up having to get a brand new door as well... which is mighty pretty I might add :) I will post pics of that adventure later on...

Anyway, we started feeling somewhat better by the weekend, but we were so sick of soup by the end of it all! Our fevers both had broken by around Thursday afternoon to Friday, so we were glad about that...

This Monday, Zack went back to work after missing almost a full week and I went back half a day just to ease into it.. I didnt quite feel as well I thought I should, But I wanted to push through...

By Tuesday of this week, my throat had started killing me again and I thought I was relapsing... I wasnt sleeping because I was coughing so much and my chest was killing me! I could hear the raspy crap in my chest and got worried, so I called my OB yet again, and she said I had pneumonia... oh yay... She said more than half her preggo patients that had swine flu had ended up with pneumonia or an infection in their lungs... (where it goes into the chest because of being pregnant and having a lower immune system at the time)... Anyway, she prescribed me a strong antibiotic (or as strong as she could), and today (Friday), I am starting to feel more normal... I cannot believe how sick I have been. For a while, I was worried I would never pull out of it! I was also worried I was going to end up in the hospital because my breathing had gotten rough before she put me on the meds for pneumonia... yuck!

I think my kitty felt bad for us, I told my mom I thought he had piggy flu or kitty flu at the same time... doesnt he look sad? Little schnookems!

Anyway, I am so looking forward to working on some stuff this weekend... I am still going to take it easy, because I want to keep my immune system up, but we plan on finishing the 20% of the floor thats left to do, and paint the baby room! I am so excited about painting the baby room, because then I can start decorating and Zack can put together all the little boogers furniture! WOOHOO! I am so grateful for all the prayers people have sent our way and all the support people have given over our week-2 weeks of illness. I am SO glad we are over it for the most part, because I am so looking forward to the shower Ann and Megan are throwing next Sat, the 7th! I will definitely try to post more pics of stuff before then, like our floor reno, and the baby room project :) Not to mention our first halloween in our new house :) We bought lots of candy to hand out! eeeeek! :)