Two words ...

Two words best describe my last couple of weeks ...

Typhoid Fever!

Yep, I really did get tyhphoid fever which landed me in the hospital for 6 days, with about 4 days leading up to my hospital stay being particular tough ...

And now I'm on the SLOW road to recovery!

I have a "pick" in, what a wonderful thing this device is! It allows me to give me my own medicine via an IV ... When they first explained it to me, I was in total opposition of having it done but after realizing that this was the only way I could to go Whistler (where I am now), I agreed! In the end the process was easy and pretty painless, the nurse did a fabelous job!

I refuse to ask "why" this happened, as my reasons for especially the horrible timing of when it happened are endless! I trust God's goodness, despite what life brings, despite "surviving a major life illness," as one of the doctors said to me when he greeted me in the hospital! On a personal level, throughout the last month I have repeatedly in different ways been stripped of everything I held dearly ...

I have to say though I am THANKFUL I was here in the US versus in Ghana! I'm also THANKFUL for my husband's work which allowed him all the time off so he could be with me in the hospital (he would go home for dinnertime and bedtime)! And I'm THANKFUL for the friends and family that poured in showers of blessings on our family, through watching the kids, through meals, through flowers, through visits at the hospital and so forth!

And although I'm still catching up processing the events of the last couple of weeks, I would have to say it sure makes you take inventory and realize the things you every day take for granted ... being able to hug my kids, being able to pick up my kids, living a healthy and pain free life, being physically mobile and being able to walk/run/bike/roller blade, and the list goes on and on ...

My advise now ... when the doctor tells you the typhoid fever shot is not required but he/she reccommends it ... take the shot :) Actually my advise ... take whatever shots/pills the wise traveling doctor advises ... :)

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Despite the beyond words toughness of the last couple of weeks, don't wonder for even one second if I would do it all again ... just one look at the precious face of our son Kody makes it all worth it ...