{"id":720,"date":"2008-02-11T09:18:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T14:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2008\/too-sick-for-the-doctor-and-other-weekend-adventures.html"},"modified":"2008-02-11T09:18:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T14:18:48","slug":"too-sick-for-the-doctor-and-other-weekend-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2008\/too-sick-for-the-doctor-and-other-weekend-adventures.html","title":{"rendered":"Too sick for the doctor? and other weekend adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I have a feeling some of you have been praying<\/b>, because we had a great answer to prayer last week. &nbsp;We were able to make an appointment with a new doctor for Nathanael. &nbsp;Actually, this doctor was recommended to us by two other doctors, and we were able to get an appointment on Saturday. &nbsp;She had already been briefed on Nathanael by his previous doctor, so that helped a lot.<\/p>\n<p>The long-awaited appointment was on Saturday. &nbsp;But Friday night we found Nathanael tossing and turning in bed with a fever.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, this guy has had his problems lately!<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I had a major migraine attack at the same time. &nbsp;None of us got that a lot of sleep that night, though, as we tried to help Nathanael.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning I was still sick, and Nathanael said his stomach was bothering him. &nbsp;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! &nbsp;With Nathanael&#8217;s doctor all the way across town (and we didn&#8217;t know <i>exactly<\/i>), we weren&#8217;t sure how he&#8217;d do in the van.<\/p>\n<p>At least we were going to the right place &#8211; we decided to risk it. &nbsp;We drove around in circles for a while across town, and finally Shari ran in to a large building and was told the doctor&#8217;s office was there. &nbsp;We parked, and I carried Nathanael to the building, and one level up the very cool spiral staircase. &nbsp;Then we waited on the comfy leather couches in the doctor&#8217;s office. &nbsp;Nathanael looked awful (I probably did too!).<\/p>\n<p>When the receptionist came in, we found out we were in the wrong office. &nbsp;In the wrong building (it was a doctor with a similar name).<\/p>\n<p>Down the very cool spiral staircase, out of the building and across the street we went, wandering around looking for the office.<\/p>\n<p>Finally we found it, and rang (it was closed and locked). &nbsp;At last, the <i>right<\/i> doctor let us in, and saw Nathanael.<\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p>He and I both improved as Saturday wore on (though I haven&#8217;t made it to the doctor yet myself).&nbsp;&nbsp;We decided not to take him to church the next day, so I stayed home with him. &nbsp;It was a good thing &#8211; he spent a lot of the morning sleeping off and on, and wasn&#8217;t feeling great. &nbsp;A slight fever even came back (it was a shame because it was our church&#8217;s 5th anniversary party. &nbsp;But don&#8217;t worry, Hannah and Shari brought home some cake.).<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night, once again the fever returned (though never as bad as the first 24 hours), and he had trouble sleeping. &nbsp;That was last night, so we let him sleep in this morning &#8211; he&#8217;ll take today off school and hopefully will be well enough to get back into a normal schedule tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re &quot;playing it by ear&quot; at the moment. &nbsp;Shari is at the school for a meeting. &nbsp;I was supposed to be taking our van in for repairs &#8211; hopefully I still will, but right now I need to give Nathanael some breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what our weekend was like. &nbsp;Never what we expect!  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a feeling some of you have been praying, because we had a great answer to prayer last week. &nbsp;We were able to make an appointment with a new doctor for Nathanael. &nbsp;Actually, this doctor was recommended to us by two other doctors, and we were able to get an appointment on Saturday. &nbsp;She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-prayer-and-praise","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Too sick for the doctor? 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