Laraba's Homeschool Blog - Over the Hump?

Nov. 6, 2009 - Over the Hump?

I'm hoping that the worst is over in our household. My asthma the last couple of days has been quite challenging, but I THINK I feel better this morning in the lung department. Probably the hardest part for me has been taking it easily! I haven't felt THAT bad, but when I have gotten too active, my asthma flared up. I also had a powerful backache and headache, and fatigue. Other than that, I felt great.

Words aren't enough to express how much I appreciate Kevin's care the last couple of days. I have a hard time resting, and he has been solicitous and firm about me staying in bed or on a chair instead of doing "just one more thing" around the house or with the kids. Thank you honey! The kids are more work than usual as they are still a bit sick, and I've mostly been out of commission.

There have been some good things about the last couple of days. I've spent quite a bit of time reading books and watching videos for homeschooling. I've gotten some additional rest. I've contemplated what a blessing a healthy set of lungs is. This is my first moderately serious asthmatic episode in 6 years, and I am grateful!

So, life goes on and we are managing. As Kevin says, it hasn't been a fun week. But we've avoided the hospital and are managing quite well. But I'm looking forward to all of us being completely healthy.

One thing I did yesterday was watch a DVD entitled "Drive Thru History", which we got from Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA). This has vignettes about 8 (?) prominent Americans who lived during our country's formative years. One was Dr. Benjamin Rush, a physician, who, among other things, stayed in Philadelphia during a Yellow Fever epidemic when almost all the other doctors fled. He and 2 other men were the only physicians for thousands of people. The Yellow Fever killed about 10% of its victims during the epidemic, and caused untold suffering.

Sadly, H1N1 has caused the death of quite a few people, many of them children. But it isn't nearly as deadly as Yellow Fever. I am impatient with more than week of moderately serious illness in our home. In other places even today, far more deadly diseases are at work and people are sick for weeks and months at a time. And of course, there are those in our country who are fighting cancer and are sick for weeks and months. I am grateful for a healthy family, and access to good medical care.

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Nov. 8, 2009 - Hello

I'm glad to hear everyone is feeling better :)

We really enjoy Drive Through History :) we'd like to get the DVD's someday. We watch it when the Christian channel comes in on the converter box LOL

As for H1N1 causing deaths - I don't think H1N1 itself is causing the deaths I think the people who have died have an underlying condition that combined with the flu makes it worse. I find it odd how the media is leaving out that some of these children and adults who have died also had some other condition where their already compromised immune systems weren't working right. I think it's a way for the government trying to convince everyone they need to get vaccinated when in reality they don't. I have a feeling H's pulmonologist will try to get us to vax H and I know I'll have to politely refuse.

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Nov. 8, 2009 - H1N1

I think it is true that most of the H1N1 deaths are in people with underlying problems. I understand this illness strikes those people quickly at times, with a person getting it one day and on a respirator a few days later. If we could have, we probably would have gotten vaccinated given that 3 of us have asthma issues. I find it only sort of amusing that I was SO concerned about Miriam, and I'm the one who is really struggling with breathing. I'm still not close to being well and that is hard for a mama of 6. Well, God is carrying us through, praise His Name.
Laraba

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