Prayer and Praise

Excuse the ambiguous title, but it seems there are loose ends all over the place here at Finding direction, so I’m going to tie a few up.  Thanks to Ken for the reminder.

First, I already mentioned this but Hannah and Nathanael are fine after the fevers of the last week or two.  Shari was sick but is starting to feel better.  As for me… well, I’m supposed to take some drugs and talk to my doctor again in about 10 days.  So I’m making as much progress toward health as is possible at the moment (I’m even writing this lying in bed – a rare tip of the hat toward recovery for me).

I mentioned Toby in the last audio post.  Marilyn (his wife) emailed from Houston on the 14th to say that he’s fine!  They’re playing with his meds a bit, but it sounds like he’s doing ok.  So praise the Lord and thank you for your prayers!

We had a good visit with the Fry family on Sunday.  In an effort to check out what’s going on in other parts of Mexico, we’ve visited with the Frys and the Williams.  They were good visits, and we look forward to more, including a trip to Texcoco next week to visit the Smiths.

Meanwhile, we’re doing school – ours and the kids’.  And as always we appreciate your prayers for that!

I don’t want to write here about every runny nose in the house, but I know many of you were praying for Nathanael and would like an update.  Nathanael was still not really himself this morning, but his fever was gone and he seemed quite a bit better.  So we did take him to school – actually, walked him to school, since the van is still in the shop.  The walk was such a novelty he was thrilled, and enjoyed seeing the "street cows" crossing the road in front of us.  😉

But… as you may guess from the subject of this post, we have another kid home today.  Hannah was down with a fever and headache last night, and is now lying on the couch taking her turn.  She’s not feeling too bad now, but is pretty lethargic.

We had quite an interesting week planned, and it already has changed drastically.  Two of us were very sorry to miss the special party on Sunday (as I mentioned in the last post).  Today we were going to have some special friends over to do some Mexican cooking, but they have a little daughter and we’ll probably need to cancel in order keep her healthy (it will be up to her parents – she was already sick probably with the same thing, so they may yet risk it).

Tomorrow we had some other kids coming over to play, and I was getting together with some friends for a Bible study Thursday, and … well, we’ll just have to take it one day at a time.  A Mexican lady today told me "All the world is sick" – so I guess it’s going around!  😥

I have a feeling some of you have been praying, because we had a great answer to prayer last week.  We were able to make an appointment with a new doctor for Nathanael.  Actually, this doctor was recommended to us by two other doctors, and we were able to get an appointment on Saturday.  She had already been briefed on Nathanael by his previous doctor, so that helped a lot.

The long-awaited appointment was on Saturday.  But Friday night we found Nathanael tossing and turning in bed with a fever.

Boy, this guy has had his problems lately!

As for me, I had a major migraine attack at the same time.  None of us got that a lot of sleep that night, though, as we tried to help Nathanael.

The next morning I was still sick, and Nathanael said his stomach was bothering him.  I had been planning to go to the doctor on Saturday (for something else), but it was starting to look like we were both going to be too sick to go!  With Nathanael’s doctor all the way across town (and we didn’t know exactly), we weren’t sure how he’d do in the van.

At least we were going to the right place – we decided to risk it.  We drove around in circles for a while across town, and finally Shari ran in to a large building and was told the doctor’s office was there.  We parked, and I carried Nathanael to the building, and one level up the very cool spiral staircase.  Then we waited on the comfy leather couches in the doctor’s office.  Nathanael looked awful (I probably did too!).

When the receptionist came in, we found out we were in the wrong office.  In the wrong building (it was a doctor with a similar name).

Down the very cool spiral staircase, out of the building and across the street we went, wandering around looking for the office.

Finally we found it, and rang (it was closed and locked).  At last, the right doctor let us in, and saw Nathanael.

It was a good visit (even though poor Nathanael was falling asleep) and she gave us some suggestions for his fever (sounds like it was probably a cold bug).

He and I both improved as Saturday wore on (though I haven’t made it to the doctor yet myself).  We decided not to take him to church the next day, so I stayed home with him.  It was a good thing – he spent a lot of the morning sleeping off and on, and wasn’t feeling great.  A slight fever even came back (it was a shame because it was our church’s 5th anniversary party.  But don’t worry, Hannah and Shari brought home some cake.).

Sunday night, once again the fever returned (though never as bad as the first 24 hours), and he had trouble sleeping.  That was last night, so we let him sleep in this morning – he’ll take today off school and hopefully will be well enough to get back into a normal schedule tomorrow.

We’re "playing it by ear" at the moment.  Shari is at the school for a meeting.  I was supposed to be taking our van in for repairs – hopefully I still will, but right now I need to give Nathanael some breakfast.

So that’s what our weekend was like.  Never what we expect! 🙂